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 333
sirable end. Gylde.v, from an inves-tigation of the parallaxes and proper motions of about half ofthe first magnitude stars, finds their average distance repre-sented by 40 light-years or 230 trillions of miles, a result con-firmed by Dr Elkins careful researches. — D. P. T. 280 Stars and… … KNOWN DISTANCES OF STARS FROM THE SUN IN LIGHT-YEARS {From Todds New Astronomy, by special permission of the A mericanBook Com/inny, publislurs) distances of the stars which he had noticed as beingapparently closely double ; and when, after an inter-val of some years, these values were determined…
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