THE MOTIONS OF THE STARS
1945
During the great revival of astronomy in the seventeenth century it became generally recognized that the stars were not lights fixed to a sphere, but celestial bodies, self-luminous like our sun, scattered through space at enormous distances. It was then to be expected that such independent bodies would move through space relatively to each other, and astronomers started to direct their efforts toward the measurement of the distances and motions of the stars.
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