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" The distance of the fixed stars is too great to admit of their exhibiting a sensible disc ; but, in all probability, they are spherical, and must certainly be so if gravitation pervades all space, which it may be presumed to do, since Sir John Herschel... "
The Connection of the Physical Sciences - Page 296
by Mary Somerville - 1834 - 356 pages
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Mechanism of the Heavens

Mary Somerville - 1831 - 710 pages
...sun is decidedly a star, it is an additional reason for supposing the solar system to be in motion. The distance of the fixed stars is too great to admit...certainly be so, if gravitation pervades all space. With a fine telescope they appear like a point of light ; their twinkling arises from sudden changes...
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On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences

Mary Somerville - 1834 - 666 pages
...perihelion within the orbit of Uranus must be to thirty as the cube of the radius of the orbit of Uranus to the cube of the radius of the orbit of Mercury, which...pervades all space, which it may be presumed to do, since Sir John Herschel has shown that it extends to the binary systems of stars. With a fine telescope the...
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On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences

Mary Somerville - 1834 - 484 pages
...heavens with a telescope, their number seems to be limited only by the imperfection of the instrument, lu one hour Sir William Herschel estimated that 50000...pervades all space, which it may be presumed to do, since Sir John Herschel has shown that it extends to the binary systems of stars. With a fine telescope the...
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On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences

Mary Somerville - 1840 - 858 pages
...other celestial phenomena. The whole number of stars registered amounts to about 150,000 or 200,000. The distance of the fixed stars is too great to admit of their DD exhibiting a sensible disc ; but in all probability they are spherical, and must certainly be so...
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Curiosities of Human Nature, Part 2

Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 344 pages
...precision and formed into a catalogue. The whole number of stars registered amounts to about 200,000. The distance of the fixed stars is too great to admit of their exhibiting a perceptible disk. With a fine telescope, they appear like mere luminous points. Their twinkling arises...
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A Glance at the Physical Sciences; Or The Wonders of Nature,: In ..., Volume 1

Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 370 pages
...precision and formed into a catalogue. The whole number of stars registered amounts to about 200,000. The distance of the fixed stars is too great to admit of their exhibiting a perceptible disk. With a fine telescope, they appear like mere luminous points. Their twinkling arises...
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On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences

Mary Somerville - 1849 - 568 pages
...promontories of intense brilliancy in the dark space that separates the starry streams of the Milky Way. The distance of the fixed stars is too great to admit of their exhibiting a sensible disc, but they must be spherical if gravitation pervades all space, as there is every reason to believe it does....
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The Dynamical Theory of the Formation of the Earth, Volume 1

Archibald Tucker Ritchie - 1850 - 642 pages
...company in a greater annual orbit round the sun."* In the Connexion of the Sciences it is stated — " The distance of the fixed stars is too great to admit...pervades all space, which it may be presumed to do, since Sir John Herschel has shown that it extends to the binary stars. "f And, in conclusion on this point,...
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A History of All Nations, from the Earlier Periods to the Present ..., Volume 1

1851 - 614 pages
...precision, and formed into a catalogue. The whole number of stars registered amounts to about 200,000. The distance of the fixed stars is too great to admit of their exhibiting a perceptible disk. With a fine telescope, they appear like mere luminous points. Their twinkling arisej....
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A Glance at the Physical Sciences, Or, The Wonders of Nature, in Earth, Air ...

Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1852 - 372 pages
...precision and formed into a catalogue. The whole number of stars registered amounts to about 200,000. The distance of the fixed stars is too great to admit of their exhibiting a perceptible disk. With a fine telescope, they appear like mere luminous points. Their twinkling arises...
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