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twenty miles a second. The same has been
proved for proper motion, and line of sight
motion, in the case of Pleiades and other
groups.
Maskelyne measured many proper mo-
tions of stars, from which W. Herschel[8]
came to the conclusion that these apparent
motions are for the most part due to a mo-
tion of the solar system in space towards
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