 | 1897 - 916 pages
...early stages of an evolutional progression. On the evening of the 29th of August, 1864, I directed the telescope for the first time to a planetary nebula...mingled with a degree of awe, with which, after a few moments of hesitation, I put my eye to the spectroscope. Was I not about to look Into a secret place... | |
 | 1910 - 742 pages
...examined by Huggins was a bright planetary nebula in Draco. "The reader" he said in an account of his work "may now be able to picture to himself to some extent...mingled with a degree of awe with which after a few moments of hesitation I put my eye to the spectroscope. Was I not about to look into a secret place... | |
 | 1900 - 598 pages
...early stages of an evolutional progression. On the evening of the 2Qth of August, 1864, I directed the telescope for the first time to a planetary nebula...mingled with a degree of awe, with which, after a few moments of hesitation, I put my eye to the spectroscope. Was I not about to look into a secret place... | |
 | Hector Macpherson - 1905 - 334 pages
...turned his spectroscope on a bright planetary nebula in the constellation Draco. In his own words, "The reader may now be able to picture to himself...mingled with a degree of awe, with which after a few moments of hesitation I put my eye to the spectroscope. Was I not about to look into a secret place... | |
 | 1909 - 1382 pages
...publications of the Lick Observatory, first observation of the spectrum of a nebula, of which he writes : ' The reader may now be able to picture to himself to...mingled with a degree of awe, with which, after a few moments of hesitation, I put my eye to the spectroscope. Was I not about to look into a secret place... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1911 - 850 pages
...early stages of an evolutional progression. On the evening of August 29, 1864, I directed my telescoi>e for the first time to a planetary nebula in Draco....hesitation, I put my eye to the spectroscope. Was 1 not about to look iuto a secret place of creation? ^ I looked into the spectroscope. No spectrum... | |
 | Hector Macpherson - 1926 - 220 pages
...nebula in the constellation Draco. ' The reader ', said Huggins, in a paper published long afterwards, ' may now be able to picture to himself to some extent...mingled with a degree of awe, with which, after a few moments of hesitation, I put my eye to the spectroscope. Was I not about to look into a secret place... | |
 | 1897 - 1044 pages
...early stages of an evolutional progression. On the evening of the 29th of August, 1864, I directed the telescope for the first time to a planetary nebula...mingled with a degree of awe, with which, after a few moments of hesitation, I put my eye to the spectroscope. Was I not about to look into a secret place... | |
 | David Malin, Paul Murdin - 1984 - 214 pages
...radiation. A small energy jump produces a lowenergy, long- wavelength quantum. planetary nebula in Drac0. The reader may now be able to picture to himself to...mingled with a degree of awe, with which, after a few moments of hesitation, I put my eye to the spectroscope. Was I not about to look into a secret place... | |
 | Michael J. Crowe - 1994 - 468 pages
...being early stages of an evolutional progression. On the evening of August 29, 1864, I directed the telescope for the first time to a planetary nebula...mingled with a degree of awe, with which, after a few moments of hesitation, I put my eye to the spectroscope. Was I not about to look into a secret place... | |
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The reader may now be able to picture to himself to some extent the feeling of excited suspense, mingled with a degree of awe, with which, after a few moments of hesitation, I put my eye to the spectroscope. Was I not about to look into a secret place... 