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I have availed myself of the labors of preceding astronomers, but have been induced thereto by my own actual observation of the solar phenomena.

— William Herschel Sir William Herschel: His Life and Works (1880)

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That the emission of light must waste the sun, is not a difficulty that can be opposed to our hypothesis.

Sir William Herschel: His Life and Works (1880)

This tends to confirm the hypothesis that all are composed of stars more or less remote.

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I have made it a rule never to employ a larger telescope when a smaller will answer the purpose.

Sir William Herschel: His Life and Works (1880)

It is very probable that the great stratum called the Milky Way is that in which the sun is placed, though perhaps not in the very centre of its thickness.

Sir William Herschel: His Life and Works (1880)

Georgium Sidus 0 jam nune assuesec vocari- to a star which, with respect to us, first began to shine under his auspicious reign.

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