| John Pringle Nichol - 1839 - 342 pages
...however, with vacant and almost starless patches' especially in Scorpio, near a Centauri and the Cross ; while to the North it fades away pale and dim, and...fourth magnitudes, which form a broad skirt to its southern border, like a vast curtain — without an impression, amounting to a conviction, that the... | |
| 1840 - 460 pages
...interrupted, however, with almost starless patches, especially in Scorpio, near a Centauri and the Cross ; while to the north it fades away pale and dim, and...this splendid zone, with the astonishingly rich and evenly disuibuted fringe of stars of the third and fourth magnitudes — which form a broad skirt to... | |
| Mary Somerville - 1840 - 858 pages
...with vacant and entirely starless patches, especially in Scorpio, near Alpha Centanri and the Cross, while to the north it fades away pale and dim, and...this splendid zone, with the astonishingly rich and evenly distributed fringe of stars of the 3rd and 4th magnitude, which forms a broad skirt to its southern... | |
| 1841 - 530 pages
...however, with vacant and almost starless patches, especially in Scorpio, near a Centauri and ihe Cross ; while to the north it fades away pale and dim, and...fourth magnitudes, which form a broad skirt to its southern border, like a vast curtain— without an impression, amounting to a conviction, that the... | |
| 1841 - 500 pages
...however, with vacant and almost starless patches, especially in Scorpio, near a Centauri and the Cross ; while to the north it fades away pale and dim, and...rich and evenlydistributed fringe of stars of the tliird and fourth magnitudes, which form a broad skirt to its southern border, like a vast curtain... | |
| T H. Howe - 1842 - 458 pages
...however, with vacant and almost starless patches, especially in Scorpio, near a Centauri and the Cross ; while to the north it fades away pale and dim, and is, in comparison, hardly traceable." — Sir John Herschel. " As our merry little ship approached the far-famed Cape of Good Hope, I often... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 370 pages
...while to the north it fades away pale and dim, and is, in comparison, hardly traceable. I think it impossible to view this splendid zone, with the astonishingly...evenly-distributed fringe of stars of the third and fourth magnitude, which forms a broad skirt to its southern border, like a vast curtain, without an impression,... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 344 pages
...with vacant and entirely starless patches, especially in Scorpio, near Alpha Centauri and the Cross ; while to the north it fades away pale and dim, and is, in comparison, hardly traceable. I think it impossible to view this splendid zone, with the astonishingly rich and evenly-distributed fringe of... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 370 pages
...with vacant and entirely starless patches, especially in Scorpio, near Alpha Centauri and the Cross ; while to the north it fades away pale and dim, and is, in comparison, hardly traceable. I think it impossible to view this splendid zone, with the astonishingly rich and evenly-distributed fringe of... | |
| Dionysius Lardner - 1846 - 614 pages
...distance. Fig. 2. and almost starless patches, especially in Scorpio, near « Centauri and the cross ; while to the north it fades away pale and dim, and...fourth magnitudes, which form a broad skirt to its southern border, like a vast curtain — without an impression, amounting to a conviction, that the... | |
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