 ... thousand stars, compacted and wedged together in a round space, whose angular diameter does not exceed eight or ten minutes; that is to say, in an area not more than a tenth part of that covered by the moon.  High-school Astronomy - Page 200by Hiram Mattison - 1872Full view - About this book
 | Sir John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1833 - 444 pages
...the apparent intervals between them at the borders (where they are seen not projected on each other), and the angular diameter of the whole group, it would...clusters of this description must contain, at least, ten or twenty thousand stars, compacted and wedged together in a round space, whose angular diameter... | |
 | sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - 500 pages
...the apparent intervals between them at the borders (where they are seen not projected on each other), and the angular diameter of the whole group, it would...clusters of this description must contain, at least, ten or twenty thousand stars, compacted and wedged together in a round space, whose angular diameter... | |
 | 1834 - 596 pages
...apparent intervals between them at the borders, (where they are seen not projected on each other,) and the angular diameter of the whole group, it would...clusters of this description must contain, at least, ton or twenty thousand stars, compacted and wedged together in a round space, whose angular diameter... | |
 | John Farrar - Astronomy - 1834 - 504 pages
...the apparent intervals between them at the borders, where they are seen not projected on each other, and the angular diameter of the whole group, it would...clusters of this description must contain, at least, ten or twenty thousand stars, compacted and wedged together in a round space, whose angular diameter... | |
 | Mary Somerville - Physical sciences - 1834 - 484 pages
...and, on a rough computation, it appears that many clusters of this description must contain ten or twenty thousand stars compacted and wedged together in a round space whose area is not more than a tenth part of that covered by the moon ; so that its centre, where the stars... | |
 | Mary Somerville - Physical science - 1834 - 390 pages
...and, on a rough computation, it appears that many clusters of this description must contain ten or twenty thousand stars compacted and wedged together in a round space whose area is not more than a tenth part of that covered by the moon ; so that its centre, where the stars... | |
 | Henry Duncan - Natural theology - 1836 - 430 pages
...the apparent intervals between them at the borders (where they are seen not projected on each other), and the angular diameter of the whole group, it would...clusters of this description must contain at least 10,000 or 20,000 stars, compacted and wedged together in a round space, whose angular diameter does... | |
 | Mrs. L. H. Tyler - Astronomy - 1837 - 302 pages
...and on a rough computation it appears that " many clusters of this description must contain ten or twenty thousand stars compacted and wedged together in a round space," whose area is not more than a tenth part of that covered by the moon. (408.) Multitudes of whitish spaces... | |
 | Fraternal organizations - 1838 - 488 pages
...visible to the naked eve. Sir John Herschel conjectures that, in some instances, there are "ten or twenty thousand stars, compacted and wedged together...angular diameter does not exceed eight or ten minutes ; that is, an area not more than a tenth part of that covered by the moon." What is worthy of especial... | |
 | Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - Astronomy - 1838 - 350 pages
...to count the stars in one of these globular clusters. They are not to be reckoned by hundreds ; for it would appear that many clusters of this description must contain, at least, ten or twenty thousand stars, compacted and wedged together in a round space, not more than a tenth... | |
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