Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 335
y, that of the Great Bear (Fig. 1). The sevenwell-known stars are here shown, four of which forma sort of oblong, while the other three represent thetail. I would Hke you to make this Httle experi-ment. On a fine clear night, count how many starsthere are within this oblong; they are all very… … Fig. 1. The Great Bear and the Pole. The Stars 301 it shows, you will find fully two hundred; so thatthe opera-glass has, in this part of the sky, revealednearly twenty times as many stars as could be seenwithout its aid. As six thousand stars can be seenby the eye all over the heavens, we may…
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