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very highest accuracy, measuring the dis-
tance between stars correctly to less than a
tenth of a second of arc.
The superiority of the heliometer over
all other devices (except photography) for
measuring small angles has been specially
brought into prominence by Sir David Gill’s
researches on the distance of the sun– i.e.,
the scale of the solar system. A measure-
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