“I must freely confess that by continuing my sweeps of the heavens my opinion of the arrangement of the stars and their magnitudes, and of some other particulars, has undergone a gradual change…”

— William Herschel

p, 125
Astronomical Observations relating to the Construction of the Heavens... (1811)

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