Star-land : being talks with young people about the wonders of the heavens (1891)
Ball, Robert S. (Robert Stawell), Sir, 1840-1913 · London ; Paris : Cassell & Co. · leaf 316
or, then, by waiting there for a twelvemonth, allthe stars in the heavens would have been successivelyexposed to view. An astronomer, Houzeau, who had thepatience to count them, enumerated about 6,000. This Stars. 30 is the naked-eye estimate of the star population of theheavens; but if, instead of… … Fig. 80.—The Great Bear and the Pole. for looking at the stars in the heavens, as well as atthe stars of another description, to which it is morecommonly applied. You will be amazed to find that theheavens teem with additional multitudes of stars that theopera-glass will reveal. Any part of the sky…
Astronomy
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