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501 Int,  2  |             village of Wallace, Nova Scotia, March 12, 1835. His father,
502 Text,  2 |            not made too early in the season, Aldebaran will be seen
503 Text,  6 |            of the whole; but when we seek to learn something definite
504 Text,  9 |              quantity. Suppose one's self in a house on top of a mountain
505 Text,  5 |         Milky Way being in a certain sense the foundation on which
506 Text,  18|            millions of distant stars separately invisible even with the
507 Text,  2 |       earthly concern to disturb the serenity of his thoughts, to some
508 Text,  15|              whether our results are seriously wrong from this cause. This
509 Text,  6 |              to the other, they only serve still further to enforce
510 Int,  2  |              admiral in 1897, having served besides as professor of
511 Int,  2  |           remained in the government service till he was retired as a
512 Text,  18|            four times as many of the seventh as of the sixth, and soon
513 Text,  20|         problem into a more positive shape.~
514          | she
515 Text,  19|      conclusion is that, besides the shining stars which exist in space,
516 Text,  14|            measures of parallax only show eight stars within the sphere
517 Text,  3 |             parts. What has yet more significance, it is in some respects
518 Int,  1  |         astronomy; and in this field Simon Newcomb was, at his death,
519 Text,  2 |              which all human affairs sink into insignificance. A new
520 Text,  9 |              as Bessel's star, while Sirius and one or two others are
521 Text,  6 |              in the general average, slower motions than other stars.
522 Text,  2 |           bright Altair, between two smaller but conspicuous stars. The
523 Text,  15|            This question can best be solved by yet another method of
524          | something
525 Text,  3 |         answering this question in a somewhat comprehensive way. It is
526 Text,  18|         seventh as of the sixth, and soon indefinitely. Now, it is
527 Text,  3 |           This structure is, in some sort, the foundation on which
528 Text,  2 |            be obtained for the weary soul - in which the mind can
529 Text,  1 |             within the limits set by sound scientific reasoning. Essaying
530 Text,  7 |       principle, suppose a farmer to sow a wheat field of entirely
531 Text,  3 |              a girdle which seems to span the whole of creation, so
532 Text,  16|       obtained by the other methods. Speaking roughly, we have reason,
533 Int,  4  |        interests extended beyond his special field, and he wrote with
534 Text,  2 |             the contemplation of the spectacle presented by the starry
535 Text,  1 |              it we shall confine our speculations within the limits set by
536 Text,  6 |          earth around the sun. These speeds range from the smallest
537 Text,  2 |        subject in the most receptive spirit should begin his study by
538 Int,  1  |                                   In spite of the fertility of America
539 Text,  16|             which we have heretofore spoken consist in the change in
540 Text,  10|            Here we shall take as our standard a distance 400,000 times
541 Text,  18|           afforded by the measure of starlight. If the stars extended out
542 Int,  2  |            mathematics in the United States Navy. He remained in the
543 Text,  16|          bodies, has been journeying straightforward through space during all
544 Text,  19|             effect was propounded by Struve nearly a century ago, but
545 Int,  2  |           Cambridge, Mass., where he studied in Harvard University till
546 Text,  2 |              spirit should begin his study by betaking himself on a
547 Text,  1 |              Raphael; but whether in studying it we shall confine our
548 Text,  20|             little more light on the subject-will be enabled to make more
549 Text,  9 |              himself successful. But subsequent investigation always showed
550 Text,  19|              the spectroscope with a success which would have been quite
551 Text,  9 |           astronomer thought himself successful. But subsequent investigation
552 Text,  16|              epochs. Observations of sufficient precision for this purpose
553 Text,  16|            astronomers have not been sufficiently complete and systematic
554 Text,  14|            of other estimates may be summed up by saying that there
555 Text,  11|             find the distance of the surface of this sphere by extracting
556 Text,  20|            is a bounded whole. It is surrounded by an immense girdle of
557 Text,  20|             conclusions at which our survey of the subject points. The
558 Text,  16|            of a star produced by the swing of the earth from one side
559 Text,  8 |           any one star. As the earth swings through its vast annual
560 Text,  5 |             have first to notice the symmetry of the whole. This is seen
561 Text,  16|            sufficiently complete and systematic to furnish the material
562 Text,  2 |           from our labors, and weary systems may find nerve rest at any
563 Text,  9 |            successive astronomer who takes it up being able, as a general
564 Int,  2  |          1835. His father, who was a teacher, gave him his elementary
565 Int,  2  |              of eighteen we find him teaching a country school in Maryland.
566 Text,  18|           make counts of the fainter telescopic stars. In fact, it has long
567 Text,  2 |      conditions that the question of temperature should not enter. The thinking
568 Text,  19|             rather hypothetical. The theories of modern science converge
569 Text,  19|             passage through space. A theory to this effect was propounded
570 Text,  1 |            long as the propensity to think of the possibilities of
571 Text,  2 |    temperature should not enter. The thinking man who does this under
572 Text,  10|          times the unit; that of the third space 27 times, and so on,
573 Text,  2 |          disturb the serenity of his thoughts, to some point where he
574          | together
575 Text,  9 |       distance. About 100 stars, all told, have had their parallax
576 Text,  9 |             one's self in a house on top of a mountain looking out
577 Text,  10|          nearer one as the unit. The total space filled by the second
578          | toward
579 Int,  3  |           good example of the simple treatment of a large subject.~
580 Text,  13|           stars. One of the greatest triumphs of astronomy of our time
581 Int,  3  |        countries have to be taken on trust by the general. He had,
582 Text,  14|          proper motions, have ten or twelve stars contained within it,
583 Text,  14|           that this average is about twenty miles per second. We are
584 Text,  14|           the stars greater by about twenty-five per cent. than that derived
585 Text,  19|          limit of the universe as we understand it, it is likely that more
586 Text,  13|          made with the spectroscope. Unfortunately, they can be best made only
587 Text,  3 |         certain characteristics of a unified and bounded whole. It is
588 Text,  20|           that it is bounded. It has uniformities running through its vast
589 Text,  16|          space with some approach to uniformity. We may state as a general
590 Int,  2  |      professor of mathematics in the United States Navy. He remained
591 Text,  7 |            are the stars? One of the unities which we have described
592 Text,  10|           will be about equal to the units of volume which they comprise,
593          | until
594 Text,  9 |             better instruments or to use a better method. But, after
595          | used
596 Text,  10|          concentric spheres drawn at various distances around our system
597 Text,  2 |             roof, and scan the whole vault of heaven at one view. He
598 Text,  2 |            led by its beautiful blue Vega of the first magnitude,
599 Int,  4  |             field, and he wrote with vigor and originality on finance
600 Int,  2  |              Newcomb was born in the village of Wallace, Nova Scotia,
601 Text,  3 |             far beyond the limits of visibility to the naked eye, which
602 Text,  7 |             ten bushels of wheat. We visit the field and wish to have
603 Text,  10|             19, etc. Comparing these volumes with the number of stars
604 Int,  2  |           was born in the village of Wallace, Nova Scotia, March 12,
605 Text,  2 |             will be formed of such a well-known fact of astronomy as the
606 Text,  9 |            of his clock. Thus things went on until 1837, when Bessel
607 Text,  2 |             will be somewhere in the west, and, if the observation
608          | whatever
609          | whose
610 Text,  9 |            mountain looking out of a window one foot square, at a house
611 Text,  1 |          might appear the dictate of wisdom to leave its consideration
612 Text,  20|            object outside of it. The wise investigator of to-day will
613 Text,  1 |            We cannot expect that the wisest men of our remotest posterity,
614 Text,  7 |               We visit the field and wish to have some idea of its
615 Text,  14|         scattered in space; in other words, what is the volume of space
616 Text,  9 |           degree of probability. The work is going on from year to
617 Text,  15|            our results are seriously wrong from this cause. This question
618 Int,  4  |            his special field, and he wrote with vigor and originality
619 Text,  2 |         Milky Way will pass near the zenith, and the constellation Lyra,