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ALTHOUGH the determination of radial velocities is, as a practical proposition, a development of comparatively recent years, the data already secured by the several observatories doing line-of-sight work promises to be of inestimable value in the study of cosmological problems. It is no longer merely a question of “approach” or “recede”—a far greater vista has been opened up as the work has proceeded. Combined with the researches of Kapteyn, Eddington, Dyson, and others on the streaming tendencies disclosed by the discussion of “proper motions,” it promises a rich mine of as yet undisclosed facts concerning the evolution of enormous sidereal systems.
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ROLSTON, W. The Radial Velocities and Spectral Types of Stars . Nature 88, 424–425 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/088424a0
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