...sun is decidedly a star, it is an additional reason for supposing the solar system to be in motion. The distance of the fixed stars is too great to admit...certainly be so, if gravitation pervades all space. With a fine telescope they appear like a point of light ; their twinkling arises from sudden changes...

...perihelion within the orbit of Uranus must be to thirty as the cube of the radius of the orbit of Uranus to the cube of the radius of the orbit of Mercury, which...pervades all space, which it may be presumed to do, since Sir John Herschel has shown that it extends to the binary systems of stars. With a fine telescope the...

...heavens with a telescope, their number seems to be limited only by the imperfection of the instrument, lu one hour Sir William Herschel estimated that 50000...pervades all space, which it may be presumed to do, since Sir John Herschel has shown that it extends to the binary systems of stars. With a fine telescope the...

...other celestial phenomena. The whole number of stars registered amounts to about 150,000 or 200,000. The distance of the fixed stars is too great to admit of their DD exhibiting a sensible disc ; but in all probability they are spherical, and must certainly be so...

...precision and formed into a catalogue. The whole number of stars registered amounts to about 200,000. The distance of the fixed stars is too great to admit of their exhibiting a perceptible disk. With a fine telescope, they appear like mere luminous points. Their twinkling arises...

...precision and formed into a catalogue. The whole number of stars registered amounts to about 200,000. The distance of the fixed stars is too great to admit of their exhibiting a perceptible disk. With a fine telescope, they appear like mere luminous points. Their twinkling arises...

...promontories of intense brilliancy in the dark space that separates the starry streams of the Milky Way. The distance of the fixed stars is too great to admit of their exhibiting a sensible disc, but they must be spherical if gravitation pervades all space, as there is every reason to believe it does....

...company in a greater annual orbit round the sun."* In the Connexion of the Sciences it is stated — " The distance of the fixed stars is too great to admit...pervades all space, which it may be presumed to do, since Sir John Herschel has shown that it extends to the binary stars. "f And, in conclusion on this point,...

...precision, and formed into a catalogue. The whole number of stars registered amounts to about 200,000. The distance of the fixed stars is too great to admit of their exhibiting a perceptible disk. With a fine telescope, they appear like mere luminous points. Their twinkling arisej....

...precision and formed into a catalogue. The whole number of stars registered amounts to about 200,000. The distance of the fixed stars is too great to admit of their exhibiting a perceptible disk. With a fine telescope, they appear like mere luminous points. Their twinkling arises...