 | 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 - 662 pages
...information of the chemical constitution of the investing atmospheres of the stars, but that they might possibly serve to reveal something of the motions...refrangibility as great as that which separates the lines D. Tliev had, therefore, proof that the stars which they had examined, among others Aldebarau, a Oriouis,... | |
 | sir Henry Enfield Roscoe - 1869 - 396 pages
...constitution of the investing atmospheres of the stars, but that they might also possibly serve to tell us something of the motions of the stars relatively to...of the same substances existing in the stars. The apparatus employed by us was furnished with two prisms of dense flint glass, each with a refracting... | |
 | Henry Enfield Roscoe - 1870 - 514 pages
...constitution of the investing atmospheres of the stars, but that they might also possibly serve to tell us something of the motions of the stars relatively to...of the same substances existing in the stars. The apparatus employed by us was furnished with two prisms of dense flint glass, each with a refracting... | |
 | 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... | |
 | sir Henry Enfield Roscoe - 1870 - 452 pages
...If the stars were moving towards or from the earth, their motion, compounded with the earth-smotion, would alter to an observer on the earth the refrangibility...of the same substances existing in the stars. The apparatus employed by us was furnished with two prisms of dense flint glass, each with a refracting... | |
 | Henry Enfield Roscoe - 1873 - 542 pages
...constitution of the investing atmospheres of the stars, but that they might also possibly serve to tell us something of the motions of the stars relatively to...of the same substances existing in the stars. The apparatus employed by us was furnished with two prisms of dense flint glass, each with a refracting... | |
 | sir Henry Enfield Roscoe - 1873 - 550 pages
...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...vapours of the same substances existing in the stars. that the displacement of a line, or of a group of lines, to ail amount smaller even than the interval... | |
 | 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...of the same substances existing in the stars. The apparatus employed by us was furnished with two prisms of dense flint glass, each with a refracting... | |
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... 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... 
