 | Immanuel Kant - 1900 - 330 pages
...demands that those stars only which are in the Milky Way will also have suns revolving round them. I come now to that part of my theory which gives it...related in their positions to a common plane, as we have 1De la Hire, in the Attmoires of the Paris Academy of the year 1693, remarks that from his own observations,... | |
 | Stephen Edelston Toulmin, Stephen Toulmin, June Goodfield - 1982 - 292 pages
...our own galaxy is not unique, the scope of the gravitational theory could be extended much farther: If a system of Fixed Stars which are related in their...positions to a common plane, as we have delineated the Milky Way to be, be so far removed from us that the individual stars of which it consists are no... | |
 | Michael J. Crowe - 1994 - 468 pages
...demands that those stars only which are in the Milky Way will also have suns revolving round them. I come now to that part of my theory which gives it its greatest charm, by the sublime ideas which it presents of the plan of the creation. The train of thought which has led me to it is... | |
 | Michael Welker - 2006 - 255 pages
...It is best to simply tell the story in Kant's own words. I come now to that part of my theory that gives it its greatest charm, by the sublime idea which it presents of the plan of creation. The train of thought which has led me to it is short and natural; it consists of the following... | |
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If a system of fixed stars which are related in their position to a common plane, as we have delineated the Milky Way to be, be so far removed from us that the individual stars of which it consists are no longer sensibly distinguishable even by the telescope... 