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I CONSIDER it an uncommon privilege to lecture on the structure of the universe in the country of the Herschels. Even now their celebrated gauges are unrivalled, and they stilF form one of the important elements on which any theory of the stellar system must be based. It is well known that the plan of these gauges consisted in directing the telescope successively to different points all over the sky, and simply counting the number of stars visible in the field.
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Recent Researches in the Structure of the Universe. Nature 78, 210–212 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/078210a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/078210a0