Stars and telescopes; a hand-book of popular astronomy founded on the 9th ed. of Lynn's Celestial motions (1901)
Todd, David P. (David Peck), 1855-1939, Lynn, William Thynne, 1835-1911 · Boston, Little, Brown · leaf 261
gh space in lines essentially parallel; a fact of the firstorder of significance, which Twining and Olmsted in 1834were the earliest to recognize. Indeed, they actually suggested s&t— 14 2IO Stars and Telescopes about two days each century; but it is especiallybrilliant and conspicuous at the… … DENISON OLMSTED (1791-1859) the apparent path of each meteor in the heavens is carefullylaid down, and the seeming radiation from a central point,wholly due to perspective effect, is made clear. These appar-ent paths are the projected sections of orbits described by themeteors round the Sun, and…
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