New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-01-21


Then came the work Of So William Hcr-chel. And
here point that la our books OF ASTRONOMY
repeated and again, OF suppo-ing l'rSchcIs
theory to starry system i like hlt disk.
II must remembered that cannot take The a1prs
of erschcl extending they 10 over half accotury
and treat all y they all were part ~ one work His
essays m Philosophical Transactions cannot no
treated like book written at once, and We mi' note
how he tells us that he himself changed MS mini
But the Milky Way he thought the stars were spread
uniformly. am convinced he ,aid :, by prolonged
examination that Ihe stars Ia me Milky way are dhfr
emily spread from those which lie immediately around"
he used the telescope. aud he counted the stars
method other acts OF observations he used different
telescopes hr-t small ana then arrcr. and then
the stars clustered richly that
the telescope refused to show them
eparaely: and then he used more powerful telescope,
and considered that he was penetrating further ana
further into space Tnat was wnen he was nearly four
score wears of age and there possibility thlt any
error in that method would not be detected hy him. and
he failed TO note thai i he wcre looking at small
cluster and looking ~ them lrst with small
nothrr more powerfnl one if lie were really passing
further aud further teal cluster. instead of being
lars "xtcndinr ont backward from our earth whrh l.
incouceiydbc. when We Cou,n1r the Immense number
of these clusters on our Milk Wty.
What wish and hope to do. on that system
of liar giueug combined with tins stem of ierschel
connfing the number Of star IN different directions
NOT field here and ted there, Hef,chel dad, little
square fields, sdo by side ~ thr h'aNeu> counting the
number and mapping the results; aud then seeing
where the shown 10y that telescope are richly
or poorly distributed. They take telescope OF
higher and afterward another OF higher power seeing
after each set Of observations whether the rich regions
seen hy correspond vita the uch regions seen by
another telescope anu 80 kh,NuE 'oineilhS oI u.'
heavens. suppose yOu were looking ~ tue sky and
large birds spread lrrgultry over IT; you noticed
that there were nilall hrls ALSO 'Pt3d over ~ tha
where the large objects were tire small ones also
hume aiH You Mpl 80 80 IA. 'i, a,'t ~ anu
email objects formed sing" QUO were 'nlsrnlArd -,
u wcre-ind hr certain mat Inc largo ana me small
ones were rmXed IN the same clouds mat cOnciu-
sion would he important ~ oui star system.
pass the results Of the NEGOTIATIONS Of strive
OF Germany who numbered the stars ana found that
large and small ,tirs arr rcH IN ino'fs III thr MIikN
Way inferred thai thcr" D. ah of them
and the system has np The shape OF dish but
that what was supposed di-A hd7 no IIl's pass to
some MAPS WhCl made ~ % beginning tpward a -ys
bnt these feN maps arc an Indication OF tne method
H,rc are all the stars the northern heavens on n
face projection, and sou WI notice that here j. the
MILKY WAY and here are gatherings ~ stars. invite
nave the southern heavens brought on. and there
more marked gathering of stars ~ certain plr. There
80 bright that when above the horizon nas the
same enc the rising Ot tlc yoUng moon aud You
will see how poverty stricken That otncr rcgcl IS all
The next map containing 2sioa stare. Thought
would pass visible To- naked eye those
charts, and Thought II they wefe Included single
chart the result could fal pc of interest II my
view true that there is an ntcr-pcr'On OF large ana
small stars tle to- ought to eis IN stars gather.
!: an equahy o Sht tiS'"htt .ut Ich region IN me
lower part That 4 the IOhe ~ the Milky Way and by
massing the stars In ~ INC nky way J. distinctly
hyQugbt into yics There are nc P!eiades in the Milky
Nay ami the head OF the Bal, and here l. region
where comparatively lew stars are seen.
Now shall ask you Ia mott zee that work OF that kind
must proceed slowly. There l. want 81 labor In the
field. Here j. always possibility tnat may gather
ia lahorcr~ mere ana hcre aud thIc J. po'sOy thdt
/ may gather assistance here IN this way what -
wanted j. lahOTcr. ~ gather Any can survey
The heavens with telescope and II J., only necessary 10
carry mat survey uniform plan. ana then the
work done will nit in with the work done by another
observer.
II consider his map with is Jl oo stars, you viii
readily perceive that 10 take, time necessarily. give
single second To each star and u amounts 10 consider
able time The time gave ~ that map amounted 70 40
hour nearly.
stars viii De not merely increased hIt multipiied
Wtha Finch 'escOpc YOu will get greater number,
aud take one Ike Hcr-cutI--i, inches IN aperture
and 1uoODOOD OF stars VIII be There TREMENDOUS
work and the results Will hc worthy Oi the trouble and
this H. the only means have OF sseeTtainlng the
TChitccturc OF tho heavens.