 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1830 - 728 pages
...shining fluid, of a nature totally unknown to us. Dr. H. can adopt no other sentiment than the latter, since the probability is certainly not for the existence...body as would be required to shine like a star of the eighth magnitude, at a distance sufficiently great to cause a vast system of stars to put on the appearance... | |
 | John Pringle Nichol - 1850 - 440 pages
...a shining fluid of a nature totally unknown to us. I can adopt no other sentiment than the latter, since the probability is certainly not for the existence...body as would be required to shine like a star of the eighth magnitude, at a distance sufficiently great to cause a vast system of them to put on the appearance... | |
 | George Taylor - 1851 - 300 pages
...a shining fluid of a nature totally unknown to us. I can adopt no other sentiment than the latter, since the probability is certainly not for the existence...body as would be required to shine like a star of the eighth magnitude, at a distance sufficiently great to cause a vast system of stars to put on the appearance... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - 1851 - 584 pages
...a shining fluid of a nature totallv unknown to us. I can adopt no other sentiment than the latter, since the probability is certainly not for the existence...body as would be required to shine like a star of the eighth magnitude, at a distance sufficiently great to cause a vast system of stars to put on the appearance... | |
 | George Taylor - 1851 - 300 pages
...not for the existence of so enormous a body as would be required to shine like a star of the eighth magnitude, at a distance sufficiently great to cause...the appearance of a very diluted milky nebulosity." Thus we find Sir William, one of the world's greatest astronomers, laying the foundation for conjectures... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - 1907 - 484 pages
...shining fluid, of a nature totally unknown to us. Dr. H. can adopt no other sentiment than the latter, since the probability is certainly not for the existence...body as would be required to shine like a star of the eighth magnitude, at a distance sufficiently great to cause a vast system of stars to put on the appearance... | |
 | William S. Knickerbocker - 1927 - 410 pages
...shining fluid, of a nature totally unknown to us. Dr. H. can adopt no other sentiment than the latter, since the probability is certainly not for the existence of so enormous a body as would u8 CLASSICS OF MODERN SCIENCE be required to shine like a star of the eighth magnitude, at a distance... | |
 | Stephen James O'Meara - 2002 - 516 pages
...fluid of a nature totally unknown to us. I can adopt no other sentiment than the latter," he decided, "since the probability is certainly not for the existence...the appearance of a very diluted milky nebulosity." Planetary nebulae genuinely puzzled Herschel, as they were nebulous in appearance yet seemed to have... | |
 | Oliver J. Thatcher - 2004 - 466 pages
...shining fluid, of a nature totally unknown to us. Dr. H. can adopt no other sentiment than the latter, since the probability is certainly not for the existence...body as would be required to shine like a star of the eighth magnitude, at a distance sufficiently great to cause a vast system of stars to put on the appearance... | |
 | Constance Ann Lubbock - 1933 - 424 pages
...shining fluid of a nature totally unknown to us. " I can adopt no other sentiment than the latter, since the probability is certainly not for the existence...the 8th magnitude, at a distance sufficiently great as to cause a vast system of stars to put on the appearance of a very diluted, milky nebulosity. "But... | |
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I can adopt no other sentiment than the latter, since the probability is certainly not for the existence of so enormous a body as would be required to shine like a star of the eighth magnitude, at a distance sufficiently great to cause a vast system of... 