 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1830 - 728 pages
...minute to be distinctly perceived with the lower power ; hence we may conclude, that when our gauges will no longer resolve the milky way into stars, it...nature is ambiguous, but because it is fathomless. In the depth of the celestial regions, we have hitherto only been acquainted with two different principles,... | |
 | John Pye Smith - 1848 - 436 pages
...heavens, in order to send out those rays by which we now perceive it." Philos. Trans, for 1802 ; p. 498. " When our gages will no longer resolve the Milky Way...nature is ambiguous, but because it is fathomless." Philos. Trans. 1818 ; p. 463. The last contribution, . I believe, to Astronomy, from that distinguished... | |
 | Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - 1848 - 302 pages
...stars, too minute to be perceived by the weaker power. We can then pronounce that if our gauges cease to resolve the Milky Way into stars, it is not because its nature is doubtful, but because it is absolutely fathomless." By these propositions, Herschel has destroyed the... | |
 | John Pye Smith - 1850 - 428 pages
...heavens, in order to send out those rays by which we now perceive it." Philos. Trans, for 1802; p. 498. " When our gages will no longer resolve the Milky Way...nature is ambiguous, but because it is fathomless." Philos. Trans. 1818; p, 463. The last contribution, I believe, to Astronomy, from that distinguished... | |
 | Elias Loomis - 1850 - 272 pages
...small to be seen by the aid of a lower magnifying power. We hence infer that if our gages cease to resolve the Milky Way into stars, it is not because its nature is doubtful, but because it is fathomless." Thus we see that the hypothesis which Herschel announced in... | |
 | John Pye Smith - 1852 - 576 pages
...send out those rays by which we now perceive it." "Philos. Trans." for 1802; p. 498. " When our gauges will no longer resolve the Milky Way into stars, it...nature is ambiguous, but because it is fathomless." "Philos. Trans." 1818; p. 463. The last contribution, I believe, to Astronomy, from that distinguished... | |
 | John Pye Smith, John Hamilton Davies - 1854 - 552 pages
...out those rays by which we now perceive it." "Philos. Trans." for 1802 ; p. 498. " When our gauges will no longer resolve the Milky Way into stars, it...nature is ambiguous, but because it is fathomless." "Philos. Trans." 1818; p. 463. The last contribution, I believe, to Astronomy, from that distinguished... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution - 1878 - 982 pages
...our instruments cannot reach, is not an ambiguous object. 463 We may conclude that when our gauges will no longer resolve the milky way into stars it is not because it is ambiguous, but because it is fathomless. 463 VI. Of the assumed semblance of dusters of stars... | |
 | Edward Singleton Holden, Charles Sheldon Hastings - 1881 - 132 pages
...our instruments cannot reach, is not an ambiguous object. 463 We may conclude that when our gauges will no longer resolve the milky way into stars it is not because it is ambiguous, but because it is fathomless. 463 VI. Of the assumed semblance of clusters of stars... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1881 - 806 pages
...our instruments cannot reach, is not an ambiguous object. 463 We may conclude that when our gauges will no longer resolve the milky way into stars it is not because it is ambiguous, but because it is fathomless. 463 VI. Of the assumed semblance*of clusters of stars... | |
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... when our gages will no longer resolve the milky way into stars, it is not because its nature is ambiguous, but because it is fathomless. 
