 ... a red and a green, or a yellow and a blue one — must afford a planet circulating about either; and what charming contrasts and "grateful vicissitudes," — a red and a green day, for instance, alternating with a white one and with darkness, —...  Student's Class Book of Astronomy - Page 195by Francis Bullock - 1873 - 224 pagesFull view - About this book
 | sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - 500 pages
...a mere effect of contrast, and it may be easier suggested in words, than conceived in imagination, what variety of illumination two suns — a red and...absence of one or other, or both, above the horizon. Insulated stars of a red colour, almost as deep as that of blood, occur in many parts of the heavens,... | |
 | Sir John Frederick William Herschel - 1833 - 444 pages
...easier suggested in words, than conceived in imagination, what variety of illumination two sung — a red and a green, or a yellow and a blue one —...absence of one or other, or both, above the horizon. Insulated stars of a red colour, almost as deep as that of blood, occur in many parts of the heavens,... | |
 | John Farrar - 1834 - 504 pages
...a mere effect of contrast, and it may be easier suggested in words, than conceived in imagination, what variety of illumination two suns, a red and a...absence of one or other or both, above the horizon. Insulated stars of a red color, almost as deep as that of blood, occur in many parts of the heavens,... | |
 | 1834 - 596 pages
...one — must arlbrd a planet circulating about either ; and what charming contrasts and " gratefill vicissitudes," — a red and a green day, for instance,...absence of one or other, or both, above the horizon.' — P. 395. Double suns in the same sky, giving red and green light, must. doubtless, be very interesting... | |
 | Henry Duncan - 1836 - 430 pages
...viscissitudes,'—a red and a green day, for instance, alternating with a white one, and with darkness—might arise from the presence or absence of one or other, or both, above the horizon."* Without entering into this speculation, which, of course, is taken from the views and tastes of human... | |
 | Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - 1838 - 350 pages
...about either ; and what charming V contrasts and grateful vicissitudes — a red and a green da ', for instance, alternating with a white one and with...might arise from the presence or absence of one or the other, or hoth, above the horizon. Insulated stars of a red colour, almost as deep as that of blood,... | |
 | Henry Duncan - 1839 - 422 pages
...somewhat amusing remarks :— " It may be easier suggested in words, than conceived in imagination, what variety of illumination two suns, — a red and...presence or absence of one or other, or both, above the horizon."f , Without entering into this speculation, which, of course, is taken from the views and... | |
 | John Pringle Nichol - 1839 - 342 pages
...green, or a yellow and blue one, must afford a planet circulating around either ; and what cheering contrasts and grateful vicissitudes, a red and a green...the presence or absence of one or other, or both, from the horizon !" All the products of the material constitution of this earth, the character of its... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - 1839 - 306 pages
...planet circulating about either ; and what charming contrasts and " grateful vicissitudes," a red and green day for instance, alternating with a white one...absence of one or other, or both above the horizon. Insulated stars of a red color, almost as deep as that of blood, occur in many parts of the heavens,... | |
 | 1840 - 460 pages
...a mere effect of contrast ; and it may be easier suggested in words than conctived in imagination, what variety of illumination two suns, a red and a...absence of one or other, or both, above the horizon. Insulated stars of a red colour, almost as deep as that of blood, occur in many parts of the heavens,... | |
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