 | Bibliography - 1729 - 502 pages
...another : So that there may be as great diftance betwixt any two Suns that are next to one another, as there is betwixt our Sun and the neareft fixed Star. Hence a Spectator who is near any one Sun, will only look upon it to whom he is neareft as a real Sun, and... | |
 | George Fisher (accountant.) - 1811 - 302 pages
...there may be as great a distance betwixt any two of them as there is betwixt our Sun and the nearest fixed Star. Hence it follows, why they appear to us of different magnitudes, not because they really are so, but because they are at diffe ent distances from us ; those that are nearest... | |
 | James Morton - Circle-squaring - 1881 - 236 pages
...there may be as great a distance between any two .of them as there is between our sun and the nearest fixed star. Hence it follows why they appear to us of different magnitudes, not because they are at different distances from us, those that are nearest excelling in brightness and... | |
 | James Morton - Mathematics - 1887 - 236 pages
...there may be as great a distance between any two of them as there is between our sun and the nearest fixed star. Hence it follows why they appear to us of different magnitudes, not because they are at different distances from us, those that are nearest excelling in brightness and... | |
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... to suppose that all the fixed stars are placed at the same distance from us ; but it is more probable that they are everywhere interspersed through the vast indefinite space of the universe, and that there may be as great a distance between any two... 