 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1830 - 728 pages
...derived from this proof of the existence of a shining matter. Perhaps it has been too hastily surmised that all milky nebulosity, of which there is so much...them, which seems to be sufficiently probable, and wUl be examined hereafter, we may with great facility explain that very extensive, telescopic nebulosity,... | |
 | Hector Macpherson - 1906 - 266 pages
...1791, five years before Laplace propounded his nebular theory. Meanwhile Herschel, believing that " these nebulous stars may serve as a clue to unravel other mysterious phenomena, found that the theory of a " shining fluid " would suit the appearance of the irresolvable planetary... | |
 | Michael J. Crowe - 1994 - 468 pages
...derived from this proof of the existence of a shining matter. Perhaps it has been too hastily surmised that all milky nebulosity, of which there is so much...stars may serve as a clue to unravel other mysterious phaenomena. If the shining fluid that surrounds them is not so essentially connected with these nebulous... | |
 | Constance Ann Lubbock - 1933 - 424 pages
...derived from this proof of the existence of a shining matter. Perhaps it has been too hastily surmised that all milky nebulosity, of which there is so much...unravel other mysterious phenomena. If the shining fluid which surrounds them is not so essentially connected with these nebulous stars but that it can also... | |
 | 1912 - 534 pages
...such a fluid, he asks himself if it may not exist apart from stars ? Has it been too hastily surmised that all milky nebulosity, of which there is so much in the heavens, is owing to starlight only ? Can one not explain the Orion nebula much better by this luminous fluid than by the clustering of... | |
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More extensive views may be derived from this proof of the existence of a shining matter. Perhaps it has been too hastily surmised that all milky nebulosity, of which there is so much in the heavens, is owing to starlight only. 