 | Hector Macpherson - Astronomy - 1911 - 394 pages
...with a blanket about me, lay down on my back, and stretched a thread with small beads upon it at arm's length between my eye and the stars, sliding the beads...stars from my eye in order to take their apparent distance from one another, and then, laying the thread upon a paper, I marked the stars thereon by... | |
 | John Bulloch, John Alexander Henderson - Genealogy - 1889 - 248 pages
...a blanket about me ; lay down on my back, and stretched a thread with small beads upon it at arm's length, between my eye and the stars ; sliding the...their apparent distances from one another ; and then, laying the thread down on a paper, I marked the stars thereon by the beads according to their respective... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1847 - 534 pages
...blanket about me, lay down on my back, and stretched a thread with small beads upon it, at arm's-length, between my eye and the stars, sliding the beads upon...their apparent distances from one another ; and then, laying the thread down on a paper, I marked the stars thereon by the beads, according to their respective... | |
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Beads upon it, at arms' length, between my eye and the stars ; sliding the Beads upon it till they hid such and such Stars from my eye, in order to take their apparent distances from one another ; and then, laying the Thread down on a Paper, I marked... 
