 | Samuel Vince - 1811 - 260 pages
...also nothing satisfactory occurred. At last I conjectured, that all the phsenomena hitherto mentioned proceeded from the progressive motion of light, and the earth's annual motion in its orbit. For I perceived, if light was propagated in time, the app rent place of a fixed object would not be the... | |
 | Samuel Vince - 1814 - 602 pages
...also nothing satisfactory occurred. At last I conjectured that all the phenomena hitherto mentioned proceeded from the progressive motion of light and the earth's annual motion in its orbit. For I perceived if light was propagated in time, the apparent place of a fixed object would not be the... | |
 | John Bonnycastle - 1816 - 490 pages
...occurred. At last, by a singular sagacity, he conjectured, that all the phenomena, hitherto mentioned, proceeded from the progressive motion of light, and...annual motion in its orbit. For he perceived, that if light was propagated in time, the apparent place of a fixed object would not be the same when the eye... | |
 | 1816 - 756 pages
...At laft this acute aflronomer found, that the pheaoneni in queftion proceeded from the progref£re motion of light, and the earth's annual motion in its orbit : for he perceived, that if light .• propagated in time, the apparent place of a "ii abicct would not be the fame when the eye... | |
 | Samuel Vince - 1820 - 472 pages
...also nothing satisfactory occurred. At last I conjectured, that all the phaenomena hitherto mentioned, proceeded from the progressive motion of light and the earth's annual motion in it's orbit. For I perceived, if light was propagated in time, the apparent place of a fixed object... | |
 | Walter Hamilton (M.R.A.S.) - 1825 - 474 pages
...in the abdomen. ABERRATION. In Astronomy, an apparent motion in the celestial bodies, occasioned by the progressive motion of light, and the earth's annual motion in its orbit. ABEYANCE. In Law, the expectancy of an estate. Thus, if lands be leased to one person for life, with... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 782 pages
...motion of the fixed stars discovered by the late Dr. Bradley, astronomer royal. It is occasioned by the progressive motion of light, and the earth's annual motion in its orbit. For the history of its discovery, see Philosophical Trans. March, 1728, No. 406. ABER'RANCE,} Ab: erro,... | |
 | 1831 - 416 pages
...would be different." He therefore announced his discovery in these words : " That all the phenomena proceeded from the progressive motion of light and the earth's annual motion in its orbit," or, as he afterwards called it, aberration of light. But he who determined its existence determined... | |
 | Royal Astronomical Society - 1831 - 422 pages
...would be different." He therefore announced his discovery in these words : " That all the phenomena proceeded from the progressive motion of light and the earth's annual motion in its orbit," or, as he afterwards called it, aberration of light. But he who determined its existence determined... | |
 | George Crabb - 1831 - 426 pages
...away a person. ABERRATION (in Astronomy.) An apparent motion of" the celestial bodies, produced by the progressive motion of light, and the earth's annual motion in its orbit Thus, in the sun, the aberration in longitude is 20" constantly, that being, the space moved by the... | |
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For I perceived that, if light was propagated in time, the apparent place of a fixed object would not be the same when the eye is at rest, as when it is moving in any other direction than that of the line passing through the eye and... 
