| sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - 500 pages
...to atoms by an explosion ; and that more such fragments exist, and may be hereafter discovered. This may serve as a specimen of the dreams in which astronomers,...speculators, occasionally and harmlessly indulge. (435. ) We shall devote the rest of this chapter to an account of the physical peculiarities and probable... | |
| Sir John Frederick William Herschel - 1833 - 444 pages
...to atoms by an explosion ; and that more such fragments exist, and may be hereafter discovered. This may serve as a specimen of the dreams in which astronomers,...speculators, occasionally and harmlessly indulge. (4:35. ) We shall devote the rest of this chapter to an account of the physical peculiarities and probable... | |
| 1834 - 596 pages
...extravagant hypothesis of Olbers respecting the formation of the four ultra-zodiacal planets. ' This may serve as a specimen ' of the dreams in which astronomers, like other speculators, occasion' ally and harmlessly indulge.' — P. 277. The prodigious number of stars which appear in... | |
| Charles Bucke - 1837 - 422 pages
...planet, which formerly circulated in that interval ; but has been blown to atoms by an explosion. This may serve as a specimen of the dreams, in which astronomers, like other speculators, may harmlessly indulge." diameters of their three external neighbours, however, are — Uranus, 35,112... | |
| William Benjamin Carpenter - 1843 - 290 pages
...of their having previously escaped notice. * No Satellite hat yet been Been to attend this planet. f By this is meant, not the distance of the planet,...condition from being ascertained. They agree, however, in these;—that their mean distances from the Sun, and their period of revolution around him, are not... | |
| Hiram Mattison - 1849 - 290 pages
...favored by Prof.: Nichol, Dr. Brewster, Dr. Dick, and others ; while Sir John Herschel observes that it may serve as a specimen of the dreams in which astronomers,...speculators, occasionally and harmlessly indulge.* Dr. Dick remarks, that the breaking up of the exterior crust of the earth, at the time of the general... | |
| John Drew - 1853 - 386 pages
...although the French astronomers would seem to receive the conjecture as an established truth : " This may serve as a specimen of the dreams in which astronomers,...speculators, occasionally and harmlessly indulge." The application of Bode's law of the planetary distances would, nevertheless, seem to favour the conclusion.... | |
| Samuel Warren - 1853 - 152 pages
...atoms by an explosion ; and that more such fragments exist, and may be hereafter discovered. These may serve as a specimen of the dreams in which astronomers,...speculators, occasionally and harmlessly indulge."* A dream ? Will it be believed, that within this last seven years, no fewer than TWENTY more of these... | |
| Samuel Warren - 1854 - 112 pages
...to atoms by an explosion : and that more such fragments exist, and may be hereafter discovered. This may serve as a specimen of the dreams in which astronomers,...speculators, occasionally and harmlessly indulge.' — A dream?— Since the year 1846, TWENTYFIVE such fragments have been discovered ! Whether any such... | |
| Samuel Warren - 1854 - 342 pages
...atoms by an explosion ; and that more such fragments exist, and may be hereafter discovered. These may serve as a specimen of the dreams in which astronomers, like other speculators, occasionally and hapmlessly indulge."^ A dream? Will it be believed, that within this last seven years, no fewer than... | |
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