Part, §

 1 Text,  5 |    whatever cause determined the number of the stars in space was
 2 Text,  7 |          the field and count the number of grains in that space.
 3 Text,  7 |          was made that the whole number of grains in the ten bushels
 4 Text,  7 |        bushels sown bears to the number of grains counted. If we
 5 Text,  7 |    square foot, we know that the number of square feet in the whole
 6 Text,  7 |         is one-tenth that of the number of grains sown. So it is
 7 Text,  7 |      must be proportional to the number of stars which it contains.~
 8 Text,  8 |        the distance of a certain number of stars, just as we suppose
 9 Text,  10| Comparing these volumes with the number of stars probably within
10 Text,  10|         present time is that the number of stars in any of these
11 Text,  11| extracting the cube root of this number, which gives us 500. We
12 Text,  11|         rough estimate, that the number of stars we have supposed
13 Text,  12|          not impossible that the number of stars is much greater
14 Text,  13|       have been measured and the number is constantly increasing.~
15 Text,  15|          includes half the whole number of stars visible with a
16 Text,  17|      limit, may there not be any number of stars outside the limit
17 Text,  18|       out indefinitely, then the number of those of each order of
18 Text,  18|         that the increase in the number of the latter rapidly falls
19 Text,  19|          space, there may be any number of dark ones, forever invisible