 | 1897 - 918 pages
...hesitation, I put my eye to the spectroscope. Was I not about to look Into a secret place of creation? I looked Into the spectroscope. No spectrum such as...first, I suspected some displacement of the prism, and mat I was looking at a reflection of the illuminated slit from one of its faces. This thought was scarcely... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1903 - 902 pages
...first time to a planetary nebula in Draco. I looked into the spectroscope. No spectrum such as I had expected! A single bright line only! At first I suspected...more than momentary; then the true interpretation Hashed upon me. The light of the nebula was monochromatic, and so, unlike any other light I had as... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1903 - 1122 pages
...looked into the spectroscope. No spectrum such as I had expected! A single bright line only! At first 1 suspected some displacement of the prism and that...more than momentary; then the true interpretation Hashed upon me. The light of the nebula was monochromatic, and so, unlike any other light 1 had as... | |
 | William Marshall Watts - 1904 - 414 pages
...evening of August 29, 1864, I directed the telescope for the first time to a planetary nebula in Draco. I looked into the spectroscope. No spectrum such as...at a reflection of the illuminated slit from one of FIG. 70. — Ring nebula in Lyra. (From Morgan's " Advanced Physiography.") its faces. This thought... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1911 - 840 pages
...hesitation, I put my eye to the spectroscope. Was I not about to look into a secret place of creation? I looked Into the spectroscope. No spectrum such as...only. At first I suspected some displacement of the prlsin, and that I was looking at a reflection of the Illuminated slit from one of its faces. This... | |
 | 1912 - 998 pages
...hesitation, I put my eye to the spectroscope. Was I not about to look into a secret place of creation? I looked into the spectroscope. No spectrum such as...first I suspected some displacement of the prism. . . . This thought was scarcely more than momentary; then the true interpretation flashed upon me.... | |
 | 1927 - 466 pages
...for quite a time. Huggins describes his dramatic discovery August 29th 1 864 in the following words : »I looked into the spectroscope. No spectrum such...At first I suspected some displacement of the prism . . . The light of the nebula was monochromatic and so, unlike any other light I had as yet subjected... | |
 | Hector Macpherson - 1926 - 220 pages
...hesitation, I put my eye to the spectroscope. Was I not about to look into a secret place of creation ? I looked into the spectroscope. No spectrum such as I expected ! A single bright line only. . . . The riddle of the nebulae was solved. The answer which had come to us in the light itself read... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1911 - 848 pages
...system — cosmical "sandheaps" — too remote to be separated into their component stars. Lord Hosse himself was careful to point out that it would be...that I was looking at a reflection of the Illuminated silt from one of its faces. This thought was scarcely more than momentary. Then the true interpretation... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1903 - 906 pages
...first time to a planetary nebula in Draco. I looked into the spectroscope. No spectrum such as I had expected! A single bright line only! At first I suspected...more than momentary; then the true interpretation flushed upon me. The light of the nebula WHS monochromatic, and so, unlike any other light I had as... | |
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I was looking at a reflection of the illuminated slit from one of its faces. This thought was scarcely more than momentary; then the true Interpretation flashed upon me. The light of the nebula was monochromatic, and so, unlike any other light I had as... 
