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THE astronomer of to-day has at his disposal telescopes which range in aperture from his naked eye, of aperture about one-fifth of an inch, up to the giant Mount Wilson telescope of more than 100 inches. If we lived in the midst of a uniform infinite field of stars, or in a field which was uniform as far as our telescopes could reach, the numbers of stars visible in different telescopes would be proportional, to the cubes of their apertures.
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JEANS, J. The Origin of the Solar System. Nature 113, 329–340 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/113329a0
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