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1 Text, 1 | admitting in advance that the sphere of exact knowledge is small 2 Text, 1 | creation, and that outside this sphere we can state only more or 3 Text, 10| space filled by the second sphere will be 8 times the unit; 4 Text, 10| each distance. Since each sphere includes all those within 5 Text, 11| to 125,000,000 times the sphere we have taken as our unit. 6 Text, 11| distance of the surface of this sphere by extracting the cube root 7 Text, 14| parallax. That is to say, a sphere like the second we have 8 Text, 14| show eight stars within the sphere of this diameter having 9 Text, 16| telescopes are contained within a sphere not likely to be much more