The Infinity of the Starry Universe (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Infinity of the Starry Universe The subject of the Infinity of the Starry Universe is closely connected with the question, What is the Milky Way? My book on the Milky Way published in June, 1905, has so far elicited no public comment in astronomical circles so far as I am aware, and this silence is capable of two different interpretations, either the evidence I adduced is unanswerable or else it is thought unworthy of serious notice. I am not justified in concluding that astronomers are averse to making the honest admission that the views they held about the Milky Way are erroneous, and I am thus obliged to conclude that my explanation of it is not regarded seriously. I have therefore in the present book added some further evidence in support of my contention, and as the view generally held by astronomers about the Milky Way is that it represents a special zone or region of the heavens, I have endeavoured to make it clear that this special zone is of such an extraordinary character that it has the enormous width of considerably over a thousand light years in the far distance, while converging on all sides towards the earth, till it becomes narrowed into a space immediately round the earth which is comparatively insignificant. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.