| 1900 - 632 pages
...the Rev. TW Webb, writing in 1873, after the first three catalogues of ft stars had been published, said : "It will hardly be possible for you to go on...your high position as an observer is fully secured." After quoting this passage Mr. Burnham remarks: "Since that time more than one thousand new double... | |
| 1901 - 540 pages
...member of that body as the late Prebendary Webb writing to him who is now facile princeps in the field: "It will hardly be possible for you to go on for any...because the number of such objects is not interminable " ; albeit since then Professor Burnham has added more than 1000 new pairs to his own list ! Verily... | |
| Hector Macpherson - 1905 - 334 pages
...been worked out by the Herschels and the Struves. Writing to Mr. Burnham in 1873, Mr. Webb remarked: "It will hardly be possible for you to go on for any...and every fresh discovery is one less to be made." Nevertheless, Mr. Burnham remarked in 1899 that "the prospect of future discoveries is as promising... | |
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