 | 1858 - 770 pages
...to take away that confusion of rays which arises from the tremors of tLe atmosphere." And adds, that "the only remedy is a most serene and quiet air, such...the highest mountains, above the grosser clouds." Notwithstanding what may be called the deliberate philosophical conjecture of the great mathematician,... | |
 | Charles Piazzi Smyth - 1858 - 164 pages
...be so formed as to take away that confusion of rays which arises from the tremors of the atmosphere. The only remedy is a most serene and quiet air, such...of the highest mountains above the grosser clouds." After having enjoyed some slight practical experience of the method so recommended, during the remeasurement... | |
 | 1858 - 374 pages
...so formed as to take away the confusion of the rays which arises from the tremor of the atmosphere. The only remedy is a most serene and quiet air, such...of the highest mountains above the grosser clouds." Impressed with these remarks, or at least with the ideas which they convey, Prof. Smyth, who suffers... | |
 | 1858 - 404 pages
...of rays, which arises from the tremors of the atmosphere ;" yet there is a remedy, and only one, — "a most serene and quiet air, such as may perhaps...of the highest mountains above the grosser clouds." During the time that the question of printing his observations, or the scientific part of the Teneriffe... | |
 | Charles Piazzi Smyth - 1858 - 528 pages
...take away "that confusion of Eays which arises from the Tremors of the " Atmosphere. The only Eemedy is a most serene and quiet Air, " such as may perhaps be found on the tops of the highest Houn" tains above the grosser Clouds." — NEWTON'S OPTICS, 1780. TO THE EIGHT HON. SIB CHARLES WOOD,... | |
 | 1858 - 798 pages
...arises from the tremors of the atmosphere." And adds, that " the only remedy is a most serene and (juiet air, such as may perhaps be found on the tops of the highest mountains, above the grosser clouds." Notwithstanding what may be called the deliberate philosophical conjecture of the great mathematician,... | |
 | 1859 - 620 pages
...be so formed as to take away that confusion of rays which arises from the tremors of the atmosphere, the only remedy is a most serene and quiet air, such...the highest mountains, above the grosser clouds." The second edition of the Optics, in which this suggestion first occurs, was published in the year... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1859 - 618 pages
...be so formed as to take away that confusion of rays which arises from the tremors of the atmosphere, the only remedy is a most serene and quiet air, such...the highest mountains, above the grosser clouds." The second edition of the Optics, in which this suggestion first occurs, was published in the year... | |
 | Peter Guthrie Tait - 1884 - 298 pages
...formed as to take away that confusion of the rays, which arises from the tremors of the atmosphere. The only remedy is a most serene and quiet air, such...the highest mountains, above the grosser clouds." 60. The principle above explained suggests many simple methods of comparing the amounts of light given... | |
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If the Theory of making Telescopes could at length be fully brought into practice, yet there would be certain Bounds beyond which Telescopes could not perform. For the Air through which we look upon the Stars, is in a perpetual Tremor; as may be seen... 
