 ... something of the motions of the stars relatively to our system. If the stars were moving towards or from the earth, their motion, compounded with the earth's motion, would alter to an observer on the earth the refrangibility of the light emitted by...  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society - Page 278by Royal Astronomical Society - 1885Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - 1869 - 652 pages
...question were moving towards or from the earth, their motions, compounded with that of the earth, ought to alter, to an observer on the earth, the refrangibility of the light emitted by them ; and, hence, that the lines of terrestrial substances could no longer coincide in position in the spectrum... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1868 - 656 pages
...they might possibly serve to reveal something of the motions of the stars relatively to our system. If the stars were moving towards or from the earth,...vapours of the same substances existing in the stars. The method employed by them would certainly have revealed an alteration of refrangibility as great... | |
 | 1868 - 1024 pages
...the Institution of Naval Architects on the «h of April 1868. of the stars relatively to our system. If the stars were moving towards or from the earth,...vapours of the same substances existing in the stars. The method employed by them would certainly have revealed an alteration of refrangibility as great... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1868 - 654 pages
...they might possibly serve to reveal something of the motions of the stars relatively to our system. If the stars were moving towards or from the earth,...vapours of the same substances existing in the stars. The method employed by them would certainly have revealed an alteration of refrangibility as great... | |
 | Henry E. Roscoe - 1869 - 372 pages
...might also possibly serve to tell us something of the motions of the stars relatively to our system. If the stars were moving towards or from the earth,...vapours of the same substances existing in the stars. The apparatus employed by us was furnished with two prisms of dense flint glass, each with a refracting... | |
 | sir Henry Enfield Roscoe - 1869 - 396 pages
...might also possibly serve to tell us something of the motions of the stars relatively to our system. If the stars were moving towards or from the earth,...vapours of the same substances existing in the stars. The apparatus employed by us was furnished with two prisms of dense flint glass, each with a refracting... | |
 | Henry Enfield Roscoe - 1870 - 508 pages
...might also possibly serve to tell us something of the motions of the stars relatively to our system. If the stars were moving towards or from the earth,...vapours of the same substances existing in the stars. The apparatus employed by us was furnished with two prisms of dense flint glass, each with a refracting... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1869 - 672 pages
...question were moving towards or from the earth, their motions, compounded with that of the earth, ought to alter, to an observer on the earth, the refrangibility of the light emitted by them ; and, hence, that the lines of terrestrial substances could no longer coincide in position in the spectrum... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1869 - 650 pages
...question were moving towards or from the earth, their motions, compounded with that of the earth, ought to alter, to an observer on the earth, the refrangibility of the light emitted by them ; and, hence, that the lines of terrestrial substances could no longer coincide in position in the spectrum... | |
 | sir Henry Enfield Roscoe - 1870 - 452 pages
...might also possibly serve to tell us something of the motions of the stars relatively to our system. If the stars were moving towards or from the earth, their motion, compounded with the earth-smotion, would alter to an observer on the earth the refrangibility of the light emitted by them,... | |
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