| 1816 - 420 pages
...remarkable nebulae which cannot well be less, but are probably larger, than our own system, and, being extended, the inhabitants of the planets that attend...compose them, must likewise perceive the same phenomena. Hence he calls them milky-ways for the sake of distinction. His opinion of their size is grounded on... | |
| 1822 - 440 pages
...a bright zone, the milky way, it may not be amiss to point out some other very remarkable nebulas, which cannot well be less, but are probably much larger,...planets that attend the stars which compose them, must perceive the same phenomena: for which reason they may also be called milky-ways, for the sake of distinction.'... | |
| 1823 - 894 pages
...nebulae, which cannot well be lees, but are probably much larger, than our own system ; and being ¡ilso extended, the inhabitants of the planets that attend...the stars which compose them, must likewise perceive tlie same phenomena : for which reason they may also I, u called milky-ways, by щ way of distinction.... | |
| Richard Anthony Proctor - 1875 - 394 pages
...no very great distance." The other passage runs thus : — " There are some very remarkable nebulae which cannot well be less, but are probably much larger than our system ; and being also extended, the inhabitants of the planets that attend the stars which compose... | |
| Richard Anthony Proctor - 1876 - 496 pages
...There are some very remarkable nebula? which cannot well be less, but are probably much larger than our system ; and being also extended, the inhabitants of the planets that attend the stars which compose these nebulae, must likewise perceive the same phenomena ; for which reason these nebulae may also... | |
| Richard Anthony Proctor - 1876 - 348 pages
...no very great distance." The other passage runs thus : — " There are some very remarkable nebulae which cannot well be less, but are probably much larger than our system ; and being also extended, the inhabitants of the planets that attend the stars which compose... | |
| 1884 - 536 pages
...which he regards as Milky Ways like our own. He mentions that " there are some very remarkable nebulae which cannot well be less but are probably much larger than our system ; and being also extended, the inhabitants of the planets that attend the stars which compose... | |
| Richard Anthony Proctor - 1884 - 422 pages
...which he regards as Milky Ways like our own. He mentions that ' there are some very remarkable nebulae which cannot well be less but are probably much larger than our -system; and being also extended, the inhabitants of the planets that attend the stars which compose... | |
| John Ellard Gore - 1907 - 412 pages
...gives observations of what he calls "compound nebulae or milky ways." He thought that some of these " cannot well be less, but are probably much larger than our own system." But this hypothesis is not now considered tenable by astronomers. Herschel's views are, however, very... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1874 - 844 pages
...no very great distance." The other passage runs thus : — " There are some very remarkable nebulae which cannot well be less, but are probably much larger than our system ; and being siso extended, the inhabitants of the planets that attend the stars, which compose... | |
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