 This news was to me like the coming upon a spring of water in a dry and thirsty land. Here at last presented itself the very order of work for which in an indefinite way I was looking — namely, to extend his novel methods of research upon the sun to...  An Introduction to the Study of Variable Stars - Page 218by Caroline Ellen Furness - 1915 - 327 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Wallace Payne, Herbert C. Wilson, Curvin Henry Gingrich - 1910 - 742 pages
...own words — ''The news was to me like the coming upon a spring of water in a dry and thirsty land. Here at last presented itself the very order of work for which in a vague indefinite way I was looking. A feeling as if of inspiration seized me: I felt as if I had... | |
 | Herbert Hall Turner - 1901 - 318 pages
...Frauenhofer lines. The news was to me like the coming upon a spring of water in a dry and thirsty land. Here at last presented itself the very order of work...research upon the Sun to the other heavenly bodies." How Sir William Huggins took advantage of the opportunity is well known. We must date the birth of... | |
 | Hector Macpherson - 1905 - 334 pages
...water in a dry and thirsty land," Sir William Huggins wrote in June 1897 in the Nineteenth Century. " Here at last presented itself the very order of work for which in an indefinite way I was looking. ... A feeling as of inspiration seized me : I felt as if I had it now in my power to lift a veil that... | |
 | Royal Astronomical Society - 1911 - 870 pages
...Fraunhofer lines. This news came to me like the coming upon a spring of water in a dry and thirsty land. Here at last presented itself the very order of work...research upon the Sun to the other heavenly bodies." It was on January 15, 1862, that the scientific partnership began between William Huggins and William... | |
 | J. B. Hearnshaw - 1990 - 554 pages
...Fraunhofer lines. This news was to me like the coming upon a spring of water in a dry and thirsty land. Here at last presented itself the very order of work...which in an indefinite way I was looking - namely, to Fig. 4.11 Huggins' 8-inch Clark-Cooke refractor. extend his novel methods of research upon the sun... | |
 | Pnina G. Abir-Am, Dorinda Outram - 1987 - 388 pages
...the lines in the solar spectrum showed the chemical composition of its atmosphere, William concluded: "Here at last presented itself the very order of work...methods of research upon the sun to the other heavenly bodies."17 Huggins's spectroscopic observations rescued the nebular hypothesis for the origin of the... | |
 | N. S. Kardashev - 1992 - 398 pages
...William Muggins wrote, referring to the news of Kirchhoffs interprctation of the solar spectrum "Here ai last presented itself the very order of work for which in an indefinite way 1 was looking — namely, to extend his novel methods of research upon the sun to the other heavenly... | |
 | Michael J. Crowe - 1994 - 468 pages
...Fraunhofer lines. This news was to me like a coming upon a spring of water in a dry and thirsty land. Here at last presented itself the very order of work...research upon the sun to the other heavenly bodies. The task Huggins took up was not easily accomplished; he noted, for example, that "The light received... | |
 | Klaus Hentschel - 2002 - 596 pages
...of starlight: "this news was to me like the coming upon a spring of water in a dry and thirsty land. Here at last presented itself the very order of work...methods of research upon the sun to the other heavenly bodies,''378 Another ardent advocate and practitioner of stellar spectroscopy was Father Angelo Secchi379... | |
 | Henry C. King - 2003 - 484 pages
...the heavenly bodies filled my mind, that the news reached me of Kirchhoff's great discovery of the nature and the chemical constitution of the sun from...research upon the sun to the other heavenly bodies. Huggins' spectroscope contained a cylindrical lens, as first used by Fraunhofer,37 to give width to... | |
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