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bound together.
The logical and necessary explanation
given of the cause of ordinary spectroscopic
binaries, and of irregular proper motions of
Sirius and Procyon, leads to the inference
that if ever the plane of such a binary or-
bit were edge-on to us there ought to be
an eclipse of the luminous partner whenever
the non-luminous one is interposed between
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