... 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... Spectrum analysis, 6 lects - Page 319by sir Henry Enfield Roscoe - 1870Full view - About this book
| Edmund Burke - 1869 - 652 pages
...refrangibility of the light emitted by them ; and, hence, that the lines of terrestrial substances could no longer coincide in position in the spectrum with...of the same substances existing in the stars. The result clearly showed that, if the light of the star is due to the luminous vapour of sodium or of... | |
| Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1868 - 654 pages
...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 same substances existing in the stars. The method employed by them would certainly have revealed an alteration of refrangibility as great as that... | |
| Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1868 - 646 pages
...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 same substances existing in the stars. The method employed by them would certainly have revealed an alteration of refrangibility as great as that... | |
| 1868 - 1022 pages
...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 same substances existing in the stars. The method employed by them would certainly have revealed an alteration of refrangibility as great as that... | |
| Henry Enfield Roscoe - 1870 - 514 pages
...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...with so much accuracy 1 Phil. Trans. 1868, p. 529. * Ibid. 1864, p. 413. that the displacement of a line, or of a group of lines, to an amount smaller... | |
| Henry E. Roscoe - 1869 - 372 pages
...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...permitted the comparisons to be made with so much accuracy i Phil. Trans. 1868, p. 529. 2 Ibid. 1864, p. 413. that the displacement of a line, or of a group of... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1869 - 672 pages
...refrangibility of the light emitted by them ; and, hence, that the lines of terrestrial substances could no longer coincide in position in the spectrum with...of the same substances existing in the stars. The result clearly showed that, if the light of the star is due to the luminous vapour of sodium or of... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1869 - 650 pages
...refrangibility of the light emitted by them ; and, hence, that the lines of terrestrial substances could no longer coincide in position in the spectrum with...of the same substances existing in the stars. The result clearly showed that, if the light of the star is due to the luminous vapour of sodium or of... | |
| Henry Enfield Roscoe - 1873 - 542 pages
...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...permitted the comparisons to be made with so much accuracy Phil. Trans. 1868, p. .Vi1'. ' Ilml. 1864, p. 418. that the displacement of a line, or of a group of... | |
| Henry Enfield Roscoe - 1873 - 552 pages
...motion, compounded with the earth's motion, would alter to an observer on the earth the refraugibility of the light emitted by them, and consequently the...permitted the comparisons to be made with so much accuracy i Phil. Trans. 1868, p. 529. * ll,id. 1864, p. 413. that the displacement of a line, or of a group... | |
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