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" This gives the impression of a division between the luminous masses, especially with a comparatively low power, which, however, when best seen with high powers, is found to be never complete. "
Contributions to Solar Physics: I. A Popular Account of Inquiries Into the ... - Page 20
by Sir Norman Lockyer - 1874 - 676 pages
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical ..., Volumes 22-24; Volumes 1861-1864

1862 - 874 pages
...imperfectly separated from each other by rows of minute dark dots, — the intervals between these dots being extremely small, and occupied by a substance decidedly less luminous than the general surface. This gives the impression of a division between the luminous masses, especially with a comparatively...
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Quarterly Journal of Science: 1864, Volume 1

1864 - 848 pages
...imperfectly separated from each other by rows of minute dark dots, — the intervals between these dots being extremely small, and occupied by a substance...decidedly less luminous than the general surface." . . . "This gives the impression of a division between the luminous masses, especially with a comparatively...
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Monthly Journal of Science, and Annals of Biology, Astronomy ..., Volume 1

James Samuelson, William Crookes - 1864 - 876 pages
...imperfectly separated from each other by rows of minute dark dots, — the intervals between these dots being extremely small, and occupied by a substance...decidedly less luminous than the general surface." . . . " This gives the impression of a division bet ween the luminous masses, especially with a comparatively...
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 24

1864 - 260 pages
...imperfectly separated from each other by rows of minute dark dots, — the intervals between these dots being extremely small, and occupied by a substance decidedly less luminous than the general surface. This gives the impression of a division between the luminous masses, especially with a comparatively...
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The Heavens: An Illustrated Handbook of Popular Astronomy

Amédée Guillemin - 1867 - 588 pages
...of unequal light— imperfectly separated from each other by rows of minute dark dots, called pores, the intervals between them being extremely small,...decidedly less luminous than the general surface. Mr. Nasmyth has recently announced his discovery that these pores are the " polygonal interstices between...
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Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 18

1868 - 582 pages
...of unequal light, imperfectly separated from each other by rows of minute dark dots, called pores, the intervals between them being extremely small,...decidedly less luminous than the general surface. Mr. Nasmyth has stated that these luminous objects are of an exceedingly definite shape and general...
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Fuel of the Sun

William Mattieu Williams - 1870 - 254 pages
...of unequal light, imperfectly separated from each other by rows of minute dark dots, called pores, the intervals between them being extremely small,...decidedly less luminous than the general surface."* 151. Mr. Brodie, whose instrument is an equatorial of 8i inches clear aperture and 11 \ feet focal...
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The Popular Science Monthly, Volume 1

1872 - 798 pages
...of unequal light, imperfectly separated from each other by rows of minute dark spots called pores; the intervals between them being extremely small,...decidedly less luminous than the general surface. Some call them " rice-grains ; " -Mr. Huggins names them " granules," and his representation of them...
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The Heavens, an Illus. Handbook of Popular Astronomy

Amédée Guillemin - 1872 - 460 pages
...be divulging too much if we recognise here the ' qualified assistant' of the Kew Reports ? ] pores, the intervals between them being extremely small,...decidedly less luminous than the general surface. Mr. Nasmyth has recently announced his discovery that these pores are the ' polygonal interstices between...
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The Popular Science Monthly, Volume 1

1872 - 806 pages
...of unequal light, imperfectly separated from each other by rows of minute dark spots called pores; the intervals between them being extremely small,...decidedly less luminous than the general surface. Some call them " rice-grains ; " Mr. Huggins names them " granules," and his representation of them...
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