Herschel, John F. W. (John Frederick William), Sir, 1792-1871 · London : Longman, Rees Orme · leaf 383
perpendicular to thelamina, and greatest in that of its breadth, as SB, S C,SD; increasing rapidly in passing from one to theother direction, just as we see a slight haze in the atmo-sphere thickening into a decided fog bank near thehorizon, by the rapid increase of the mere length of thevisual… … strated the fact of its entirely consisting of stars. Socrowded are they in some parts of it, that by countingthe stars in a single field of his telescope, he was led toconclude that 50000 had passed under his review in azone two degrees in breadth, during a single hours ob-servation. The immense…
Astronomy
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