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 328
the same time asBessels of 61 Cygni), observations of a bright star inthe southern hemisphere, a Centauri, show that itsparallax is the greatest of all the fixed stars yet meas-ured ; and the best determination, made by Dr Gilland Dr Ei.kint at the Cape of dood Hope in 1881-83, amounts to o.75,… … BRUNNOW (182I-1S91) (No. 21,185) nas yielded a parallax of about o.5,and that of another (No. 21,25$) is about 0.$. Alsomany, smaller in amount, have been determined. Onlyby the rapid propagation of light is it possible toexpress the distances of theenormously remote fixedstars in small figures.…
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