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the heavens, especially in relation to the
                                         Milky Way, are striking facts, which will
                                         certainly bear fruit when the time arrives
                                         for discarding vague speculations, and learn-
                                         ing to read the true physical structure and
                                         history of the starry universe.
                                             Stellar Spectra. –When the spectroscope
                                         was first available for stellar research, the
                                         leaders in this branch of astronomy were
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