 | Agnes Mary Clerke - 1890 - 494 pages
...Istituto Lombardo, t. xiv. p. 82. CHAPTER XXIV. STATUS OF THE NEBULJE. THE question whether nebulae are external galaxies hardly any longer needs discussion....available evidence before him, can now, it is safe to say, maintain any single nebula to be a star system of coordinate rank with the Milky Way. A practical... | |
 | Henry Grattan Guinness - 1896 - 586 pages
...following sentence in Clerke's work on " The System of the Stars " : — S " The question whether nebulae are external galaxies hardly any longer needs discussion....available evidence before him, can now, it is safe to say, maintain any single nebula to be a star system of co-ordinate rank with the Milky Way. A practical... | |
 | Agnes Mary Clerke - 1905 - 470 pages
...finite minds, to grasp in its entirety. CHAPTEE XXVI STATUS OF THE NEBULffl THE question whether nebulae are external galaxies hardly any longer needs discussion. It has been answered by the progress of research. No competent thinker, with the whole of the available evidence before him, can now, it is... | |
 | Royal Astronomical Society of Canada - 1919 - 1112 pages
...where we began. THE PROBLEM OF ISLAND UNIVERSES.* By HECTOR MACPHERSON. THE question whether nebulae are external galaxies hardly any longer needs discussion. It has been answered by the progress of research. No competent thinker with the whole of the available evidence before him can now, it is safe... | |
 | Frank Washington Very - 1927 - 414 pages
...of astronomers rejected Swedenborg's theory. Miss Clerke wrote in 1890: The question whether nebulae are external galaxies hardly any longer needs discussion....available evidence before him, can now, it is safe to say, maintain any single nebula to be a star system of co-ordinate rank with the Milky Way. A practical... | |
 | D. W. Sciama - 1971 - 256 pages
...controversy. In 1905 Agnes Clerke, a historian of astronomy, wrote as follows: The question whether nebulae are external galaxies hardly any longer needs discussion. It has been answered by the progress of research. No competent thinker, with the whole of the available evidence before him, can now, it is... | |
 | Michael J. Crowe - 1994 - 468 pages
...118. MJC] ^Uran. Argentina, p. 381. CHAPTER XXVI STATUS OF THE NEBULAE The question whether nebulae are external galaxies hardly any longer needs discussion. It has been answered by the progress of research. No competent thinker, with the whole of the available evidence before him, can now, it is... | |
 | Helge Kragh - 1999 - 518 pages
...system. Writing in 1890, the English astronomer Agnes Clerke summed up the prevailing view as follows: No competent thinker, with the whole of the available evidence before him, can now, it is safe to say, maintain any single nebula to be a star system of coordinate rank with the Milky Way. A practical... | |
 | Michael Hoskin - 1999 - 384 pages
...The System of the Stars, significantly used 'system' in the singular: The question whether nebulae are external galaxies hardly any longer needs discussion....available evidence before him, can now, it is safe to say, maintain any single nebulae to be a star system of coordinate rank with the Milky Way. A practical... | |
 | F. Hoyle, G. Burbidge, J. V. Narlikar - 2000 - 382 pages
...conclusions of professional astronomers, stated with some confidence: The question whether nebulae are external galaxies hardly any longer needs discussion. It has been answered by the progress of research. No competent thinker, with the whole of the available evidence before him, can now, it is... | |
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No competent thinker with the whole of the available evidence before him, can now, it is safe to say, maintain any single nebula to be a star system of co-ordinate rank with the Milky Way. 
