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 35
reviously been supposed to bethe boundary of the solar system, but who, turningupon the sidereal heavens with unwearied diligencethe powerful instruments constructed by himself, 14 Stars and Telescopes acquired for mankind a knowledge of the distribu-tion and motions of the stars, which inaugurated… … SIR WILLIAM HERSCHEL (1738-1S22) catalogue ot stars, which was the standard work ofreference on the subject until superseded by the cata-logue of the British Association containing 8,377 stars,published in 1845. Soon after this the boundary of the solar systemwas still farther enlarged by the…
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