| 单词 | star-gauging |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstar-gauging star-gauging n. Astronomy (now historical) (with reference to W. Herschel) = star gauge n. (a); the process of counting stars in this way. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > cosmology > science of observation > astronomical calculation > [noun] > stars star gauge1784 star-gauging1845 star count1889 1845 tr. A. von Humboldt Κοσμος I. 159 William Herschel..discovered, by means of his star-gaugings [Ger. Stern-Aichungen], that the telescopic breadth of the milky way is six or seven degrees greater than it appears upon our maps of the heavens. 1870 R. A. Proctor Other Worlds than Ours Pref. 8 The fact that Sir William Herschel adopted an erroneous hypothesis as the basis of his system of star-gauging. 1924 G. E. Hale Depths of Universe i. 10 Herschel... By his method of star-gauging he endeavoured to determine the structure of the sidereal system. 2004 D. H. Clark & M. D. H. Clark Measuring Cosmos iii. 63 On the basis of star gauging Herschel concluded that the universe was a flattened disk, like a millstone. < as lemmas |
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