Astronomical Curiosities: Facts and Fallacies

by J. Ellard Gore

[514] Celestial Cycle, p. 367.

[515] The Observatory, vol. 5 (1882), p. 251.

[516] Quoted by Humboldt in Cosmos, vol. ii. p. 696, footnote.

[517] Quoted by Denning in Telescopic Work, p. 347.

[518] Knowledge, February 20, 1885, p. 149.

[519] Humboldt’s Cosmos, vol. i. p. 123.

[520] Outlines of Astronomy, par. 319; edition of 1875.

[521] Bulletin de la Soc. Ast. de France, March, 1908, p. 146.

[522] An “astronomical unit” is the sun’s mean distance from the earth.

[523] This is on the American and French system of notation, but on the English system, 10⁶⁶ = 10⁶⁰ × 10⁶ would be a million decillion.