A popular handbook and atlas of astronomy, designed as a complete guide to a knowledge of the heavenly bodies and as an aid to those possessing telescopes (1891)
Peck, William, Sir, 1862-1925 · New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons · leaf 69
that the stars would,by the rotation of the earth, be made to pass through the field of view, and, in doing this, he found that, inso short an interval as one quarter of an hour, no less than one hundred and twenty thousand stars passedbefore his eyes; from which he concluded that there were, at… … Fig. 15. THE MILKY WAYAS VIEWED WITH A TELESCOPE. the stars in other parts of the heavens. To Herschel, and others of his time, it seemed that this luminousbelt was simply the effect produced by looking from near the centre towards the edge of a vast collectionof orbs, and viewing great depths of…
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