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 1 Int,  1  |      in astronomy; and in this field Simon Newcomb was, at his
 2 Int,  4  |    extended beyond his special field, and he wrote with vigor
 3 Text,  6 | character throughout the whole field we are considering. Even
 4 Text,  7 |        a farmer to sow a wheat field of entirely unknown extent
 5 Text,  7 | bushels of wheat. We visit the field and wish to have some idea
 6 Text,  7 |      square in any part of the field and count the number of
 7 Text,  7 |       scattered over the whole field, we find its extent by the
 8 Text,  7 |      rule that the size of the field bears the same proportion
 9 Text,  7 |       square feet in the whole field is one-tenth that of the
10 Text,  8 |      small extent of his wheat field. There is only one way in
11 Text,  8 |     and difficult in the whole field of practical astronomy.~
12 Text,  11|        the extent of his wheat field. Let us suppose that there