212 



■* (©. 182.) ©truve, Etudes d'Astr. stcllaire p. 41. 



M (©. 182.) Äoemoä $b. I. ©. 156 ttitb 415 «Mnm. 79. 



M (©. 183.) »Stars slanding on a clear black ground (@ap-- 

 reif e p. 391). This remarkable bell (the milky way, when 

 cxamincd Ihrougb powcrful telescopes) is found (wonderful to 

 rekle!) to consist entirely of stars scattered by mUlions, like 

 glittering dust, ou the black yround of ihc general heavens.« 

 (Outlines p. 182, 537 unb 539.) 



" (©. 183.) »Globular Clusters, except in one rcgion of 

 small extent (belween 16 h 45' and 19* in RA.), and nebulae of 

 regulär elliptic forms are comparatively rare in the Milky Way, and 

 are found congregated in the grealest abundance in a part of the 

 heavens the most remote possiblc from that circle.« Outlines 

 p. 614. ©djon £u»gen$ tvar feit 1656 auf ben Mangel alleä 9te 

 belö tuib aller 9tebelflecfe in ber 9)?ild)ftraße aufmerffam. 3tt ber= 

 felben ©teile, in weiter er bie erfie Grntbecfung unb SIbbilbung 

 beä großen 9?ebelflecfe$ in bem ©ürtel beö Orion bureb einen 28: 

 füßigen Oiefractor (1656) errcaljnr, fagt er (wie icb febon oben im 

 2ten 93anbe be$ Äoömoä ©. 514 bemerft): viam lacteam perspicil- 

 lis inspeciam nullas habere nebulas; bie 9)iild)ftraße fei wie alle$, 

 wa$ man für 'Dtebelfterne t>alte, ein großer ©ternbaufen. Sie ©teile 

 i|i abgebrutft in Hugenii Opera varia 1724 p. 593. 



88 (©. 183.) Gap reife 5 105, 107 unb 328. lieber ben 

 Nebelring 9?o. 3686 f. p. 114. 



87 (@. 184.) »Intervals absolulely dark and completely void 

 of any star of the smallcst lelescopic magnitude.« Outlines 

 p. 536. 



88 (©. 184.) »No region of the heavens is fuller ofobjeets, 

 beautiful and remarkable in themselves, and rendered still 

 more so by their mode of associalion and by the peculiar fea- 

 tures assumed by the Milky Way, which are wilhout a parallel 

 in any other part of its course.« ((Jap reife p. 386.) 25iefer fo 

 lebenbige 2lu$fprud) »on ©ir 3">b» £erfcbel fiimmt ganj mit ben 

 <!rinbrütfen überein, bie icb felbft empfangen. @ap. 3acob (Bombay 

 Engineers) fagt pon ber 2id)ti3ntenfität ber SDiildjftraße in ber 

 9?äbe be$ füblidjen Äreujeä mit trejfenber 2ßal)rl)eit: such is the 

 general blazc of slar-light near the Cross from that part of the 

 sky, thst a person is immediately madeaware of its having riseu 



