Excerpt from How to Know the Starry Heavens: An Invitation to the Study of Suns and Worlds The figures given in this work are mostly round numbers. They do not claim absolute accuracy, but at the same time every effort has been made to avoid serious errors. The distance of the nearest star has been given as about times as great as that of Neptune. It is quite possible that further investigations may result in other figures being adopted. But even if it should be changed to or the comparisons used will still serve to ...
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Excerpt from How to Know the Starry Heavens: An Invitation to the Study of Suns and Worlds The figures given in this work are mostly round numbers. They do not claim absolute accuracy, but at the same time every effort has been made to avoid serious errors. The distance of the nearest star has been given as about times as great as that of Neptune. It is quite possible that further investigations may result in other figures being adopted. But even if it should be changed to or the comparisons used will still serve to illustrate the relative dimensions of the visible Universe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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