Excerpt from Outlines of Natural Philosophy, Being Heads of Lectures Delivered in the University of Edinburgh, Vol. 2

1. When we look at the heavens in a clear night, all the stars appear at the same distance from us, and therefore seem to be situated in the surface of a sphere having the eye for its centre.

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