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Excerpt from The System of Β Lyrae
Since the brightness of the system is reduced at Minimum I (primary minimum) by 66 per cent. Of its greatest brightness and at Minimum II (secondary minimum) by only 36 per cent., it is evident that the disks must be assumed unequally bright or that the orbital eccentricity must be assumed great or finally, that both these circumstances concur. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
