...Struve and Henderson as well as Bessel. The discovery of the distances of the stars was alluded to as " the greatest and most glorious triumph which practical astronomy has ever witnessed." From this date the history of our accurate knowledge of the subject may be said to commence. Each succeeding...

...barrier against which we have chafed so long and so vainly — (astttantes angusto limits mvndi) — almost simultaneously overleaped at three different...possibility that it may be all an illusion — and that further researches, as they have repeatedly before, so may now fail to substantiate this noble result....

...the recent words of Sir John Ilerschel : — " This is the greatest and most glorious triumph that practical astronomy has ever witnessed. Perhaps I...possibility that it may be all an illusion — and that farther researches, as they have repeatedly before, so may now fail to substantiate this noble result....

...NICHOL. DISCOVERY OP PARALLAX AMONG THE FIXED STARS. This is the greatest and most glorious triumph2 that practical astronomy has ever witnessed. Perhaps I...possibility that it may be all an illusion — and that farther researches, as they have repeatedly before, so may now, fail to substantiate this noble result....

...Henderson as well as those of Bessel. The discovery of the distances of the stars was alluded to as " the greatest and most glorious triumph which practical astronomy has ever witnessed." From this date the history of our accurate knowledge of the subject may be said to commence. Each succeeding...

...Henderson as well as those of Bessel. The discovery of the distances of the stars was alluded to as "the greatest and most glorious triumph which practical astronomy has ever witnessed." From this date the history of our accurate knowledge of the subject may be said to commence. Each succeeding...

...which we have chafed so long and so vainly, (astuantes angusto limite mundi,) thus fairly overleaped. It is the greatest and most glorious triumph which...strongly — perhaps I should hold some reserve in favor of the bare possibility that it may be all an illusion, and that further researches, as they...

...that barrier against which we have chafed so long and so vainly (aestuantes angusto limite mundi) — almost simultaneously overleaped at three different...possibility that it may be all an illusion, and that further researches, as they have repeatedly before, so may now, fail to substantiate this noble result....

...knowledge of astronomy, I hoped that he would share my interest in what Sir John Herschel called ' the greatest and most glorious triumph which practical astronomy has ever witnessed '. To my surprise and disappointment he dismissed the subject with impatient contempt : the Nautical...

...barrier against which we have chafed so long and so vainly — cest-uantes angusto limite mundi — almost simultaneously overleaped at three different...triumph which practical astronomy has ever witnessed. . . . Let us trust that, as the barrier ha« begun to yield, it will speedily be effectually prostrated."...