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II. Localisation of the Stars in Space by a Sorting Process. THE method may be best explained as a sorting process. The process was not actually followed; it would have been too laborious, and would have met with some difficulty.2 But the difference is immaterial, and the present description has, I think, the advantage in point of clearness. Let each of the stars of the second, third, c., to the eighth magnitudes be represented by a little card on which are inscribed the apparent magnitude and the apparent proper motion of the star. Then imagine three sets of boxes.
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Recent Researches in the Structure of the Universe. Nature 78, 234–237 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/078234a0
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