fourteen-thousand

Updated: July 22, 2025

Imagine fourteen-thousand fire-balloons with an approach to regularity in a spherical space say, ten miles in diameter; there would be an average of less than thirty in every cubic mile, and it would be necessary to go to a considerable distance in order to see them as a globular aggregation; yet from a point sufficiently far away they would blend into a glowing ball.

Garrett Putman Serviss - Curiosities of the Sky