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Français : Représentation de la Voie Lactée selon William Herschel. A noter qu'il s'était trompé puisqu'il avait placé le soleil au centre de notre galaxie. English: The shape of our Galaxy as deduced from star counts by William Herschel in 1785; the solar system was assumed near center. (NOTE: The image shown is flipped 180 degrees on the horizontal axis from the original, as first published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society in 1785; the bifurcated arms of the illustration should be on the left.) |
| Source | "Section of our sidereal system." Herschel, William (1785). "On the Construction of the Heavens. By William Herschel, Esq. FRS.". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 75: 216-266. DOI:10.2307/106755. |
| Author | Caroline Herschel |
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