Kosmos III
Udkast til en physisk Verdensbeskrivelse

71 øs (S. 125.) Et Udtog as det saa sjeldne Værk af Thomas Whright fra Durham (Theory of the Universe, London 1750) har Morgan givet i Philos. Magazine Ser. HL No. 32 p. "241. Thomas Wright, paa hvis Bestræbelse Kants og William Herschels sindrige Spcculatiouer angaaende vor Stjernelags Skikkelse, sra Be- gyndelsen af dette Aarhundrede som blivende have heftet Astronomernes Opmærksomhed, observerede selv kun med en Reflector af 1 Fods Fo- caUeengde. 9J (S. 126.) Pfaff i Will, Herschels fämmH. Schriften Bd. I. (1826) S. 78-81 ; Struve, Eludes stell, p. 35—44. Qi (S. 125.) (Siide i Schumachers A str. Nachr. No. 622 (1847) S. 341—316. es (S. 126.) Outlines p. 536. Paa den næstfølgende Side hedder det om samme Gjenftand: „In such cases it is equally impos- sible not to percehe that we are looking trought a sheet of stars of no great - thickness compared with the distance which separates them from us.“ øs (S. 120.) Struve, Etudes stell, p. 63. Undertiden naae de storste Kikkerter et saadant Num as Himmelslmt, at Tilværelsen as et i viiv Fjerne opsvulmende Sijernelag fun giver sig tilkjende ved et ligesom blot lysplettet Udseende (by an uniform dotting or stippling of the field of xiew). S. i Capreisen p. 390 Assnittet: „on some in- dications of very remote telescopic branches of the Milky Way, or of an independent sideral Systems, or Systems, bearing a recemblance to such branches.“ 8" (S. 126.) Capreise p. 314. »s (S. 1-26,) Sir William Herschel i Philos. Transact, for 1785 p. 21; Sir John Herschel, Capreise § 293. (Samml ogsaa Struve, Descr. de 1 ’ Obser vatoire de Poulkova 1815 p. 267—271). 99 (S. 126.) „I think11, siger Sir John Herschel „it is im- possible to view this splendid zone from « Centari to the Gross wit- hout an impression amounting almost to conviction, that the milky way is not a mere stratum, but annuls« ; or a least that our system is placed whitin one of the poorer or almost vacant pails ol its gene- ral mass, and that eccentrically, so as to be much nearer to the ic- gion about the Cross than to that diametrically opposite to it.w (Mary Sommerville on the connexion of the physical sciences 1846 p. 419). loo (S. 226.) Capreise § 315. i (S. 130.) De ad mir a ii da Nova Stella anno 1572 ex- orla, i Tychonis Brahe A s t r o n o rn i a e ins la u rata e Pro- gymnasmata 1603 p. 293—301 og -578. Jeg har i werten al