 | 1840 - 460 pages
...the Cross ; while to the north it fades away pale and dim, and is, in comparison, hardly traceable. I think it is impossible to view this splendid zone, with the astonishingly rich and evenly disuibuted fringe of stars of the third and fourth magnitudes — which form a broad skirt to... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1840 - 858 pages
...and the Cross, while to the north it fades away pale and dim, and is in comparison hardly traceable. I think it is impossible to view this splendid zone, with the astonishingly rich and evenly distributed fringe of stars of the 3rd and 4th magnitude, which forms a broad skirt to its southern... | |
 | 1841 - 496 pages
...and the Cross; while to the north it fades away pale and dim, and is in comparison hardly traceable. I think it is impossible to view this splendid zone,...a broad skirt to its southern border, like a vast curtain—without an impression, amounting to a conviction, that the Milky Way is not a mere stratum,... | |
 | 1841 - 500 pages
...and the Cross ; while to the north it fades away pale and dim, and is in comparison hardly traceable. I think it is impossible to view this splendid zone,...rich and evenlydistributed fringe of stars of the tliird and fourth magnitudes, which form a broad skirt to its southern border, like a vast curtain... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 344 pages
...while to the north it fades away pale and dim, and is, in comparison, hardly traceable. I think it impossible to view this splendid zone, with the astonishingly...evenly-distributed fringe of stars of the third and fourth magnitude, which forms a broad skirt to its southern border, like a vast curtain, without an impression,... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 370 pages
...while to the north it fades away pale and dim, and is, in comparison, hardly traceable. I think it impossible to view this splendid zone, with the astonishingly...evenly-distributed fringe of stars of the third and fourth magnitude, which forms a broad skirt to its southern border, like a vast curtain, without an impression,... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1846 - 580 pages
...and the cross ; while to the north it fades away pale and dim, and is in comparison hardly traceable. I think it is impossible to view this splendid zone,...evenly-distributed fringe of stars of the third and founh magnitudes, which form a broad skirt to its southern border, like a vast curtain — without... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1846 - 496 pages
...and the Cross, while to the north it fades away pale and dim, and is in comparison hardly traceable. I think it is impossible to view this splendid zone, with the astonishingly rich and evenly distributed fringe of stars of the 3rd and 4th magnitude, which forms a broad skirt to its southern... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1846 - 506 pages
...the Cross, while to the north it fades away pale and dim, and is in comparison hardly traceable. 1 think it is impossible to view this splendid zone, with the astonishingly rich and evenly distributed fringe of stars of the 3rd and 4th magnitude, which forms a broad skirt to its southern... | |
 | 1847 - 650 pages
...and is in comparison hardly traceable. I think it is impossible to view this splendid zone, with thu astonishingly rich and evenly-distributed fringe of...skirt to its southern border, like a vast curtain, wilhoutan impression, amounting to a conviction, that the milky way is not a mere stratum, but an anuulus... | |
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Centauri and the Cross ; while to the north it fades away pale and dim, and is in comparison hardly traceable. I think it is impossible to view this splendid zone, with the astonishingly rich and... 
