 | Samuel Vince - 1811 - 260 pages
...bright; and that its getting out of the eclipse was preceded by a blood-red streak of light, from its left limb, which continued not longer than six or...seconds of time ; then part of the sun's disc appeared, [* 0n SV, SL, let fall the perpendiculars TO, up. Then Vn, />L, are the differences of SV, So, and... | |
 | Samuel Vince - 1814
...bright ; and that its getting out of the eclipse was preceded by a blood-red streak of light, from its left limb, which continued not longer than six or...time ; then part of the sun's disc appeared, all on a sudVOL. i. 3 c den, as bright as I'cintx was ever seen in the night ; nay brighter, and in that very... | |
 | 1823 - 896 pages
...very bright : that his getting out of the eclipse was preceded by a blood-red streak of light from his left limb, which continued not longer than six or seven seconds of time ; then part of the sun's disk appeared all on a sudden, brighter than Venns was ever seen in the night j and in that very instant... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1869 - 610 pages
...observing that " his getting out of his eclipse was pre' ceded by a blood-red streak of light ' from his left limb, which continued ' not longer than six or...time ; then part of the sun's disc ' appeared all of a sudden as bright as ' Venus was ever seen in the night, — ' nay, brighter ; and in that very... | |
 | Joseph Norman Lockyer, Sir Norman Lockyer - 1874 - 734 pages
...observing that "his getting out of his eclipse was preceded by a blood-red streak of light from his left limb, which continued not longer than six or...of time; then part of the sun's disc appeared all of a sudden as bright as Venus was ever seen in the night — nay brighter ; and in that very instant... | |
 | George Frederick Chambers - 1877 - 968 pages
...which continued not longer than 6 or 7 seconds of time; then part of the Sun's disc appeared all of a sudden, as bright as Venus was ever seen in the...instant gave a light and shadow to things as strong as the Moon uses to doc." c Phil. Trant., vol. xxv. p. 2240. 1706. On this communication Flamsteed remarks... | |
 | George Frederick Chambers - 1889 - 736 pages
...which continued not longer than 6 or 7 seconds of time ; then part of the Sun's disc appeared all of a sudden, as bright as Venus was ever seen in the...instant gave a light and shadow to things as strong as the Moon uses to dod." d Phil. Trant., vol. xxv. p. 2240. 1706. On this communication Flamsteed remarks... | |
 | George Frederick Chambers - 1889 - 758 pages
...which continued not longer than 6 or 7 seconds of time ; then part of the Sun's disc appeared all of a sudden, as bright as Venus was ever seen in the...very instant gave a light and shadow to things as Btrong as the Moon uses to dod." d Phil. Trait?., vol. xxv. p. 2240. 1706. On this communication Flamsteed... | |
 | Cecil Goodrich Julius Dolmage - 1909 - 426 pages
...He says the sun's " getting out of his eclipse was preceded by a blood-red streak of light from its left limb, which continued not longer than six or...of time ; then part of the Sun's disc appeared all of a sudden, as bright as Venus was ever seen in the night, nay brighter ; and in that very instant... | |
 | Various - 1871 - 568 pages
...of the sun, " that his getting out of the eclipse was preceded by blood-red treaks of light from the left limb, which continued not longer than six or seven seconds of time." Flamstead, commenting on this description in a letter to the Royal Society, remarks that the captain... | |
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... seconds of time ; then part of the Sun's disc appeared all of a sudden, as bright as Venus was ever seen in the night ; nay, brighter ; and in that very instant gave a light and shadow to things as strong as the Moon uses to dod. 