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" It is impossible to imagine any thing more tremendous than a conflagration that could be visible at such a distance. "
On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences - Page 396
by Mary Somerville - 1835 - 493 pages
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Mechanism of the Heavens

Mary Somerville - 1831 - 710 pages
...then gradually diminished in splendour, and after exhibiting all the variety of tints that indicates the changes of combustion, vanished sixteen months...conflagration that could be visible at such a distance. Some stars are periodic, possibly from the intervention of opaque bodies revolving about them, or from...
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Mechanism of the Heavens

Mary Somerville - 1831 - 720 pages
...vanished sixteen months after its discovery, without altering its position. It is impossible toimagine any thing more tremendous than a conflagration that could be visible at such a distance. Some stars are periodic, possibly from the intervention of opaque bodies revolving about them, or from...
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Mortal life; and the state of the soul after death, by a Protestant layman

Alexander Copland - 1832 - 586 pages
...thinks it must have been onfre when it was visible to us; adding, that — "it is impossible to conceive any thing more tremendous than a conflagration that could be visible at such a distance." — But its variableness of colour may have depended on causes wiih which we are not acquainted, for...
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The Geography of the Heavens, and Class Book of Astronomy: Accompanied by a ...

Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - 1838 - 350 pages
...and lastly of an ashy paleness, in which its light expired. It is impossible, says Mrs. Somerville, to imagine any thing more tremendous than a conflagration that could be visible at such a distance.^ It was seenrjbr sixteen nylnths.^) fSome astronomers imagined that it would reappear again after 150 years...
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The Family Library (Harper)., Volume 99

1840 - 460 pages
...It is impossible," says Mrs. Sommervilie, when alluding to the star of 1572, " to imagine anything more tremendous than a conflagration that could be visible at such a distance." Whether there was anything in the existing state of the body alluded to similar to what we call a conflagration...
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Curiosities of Human Nature, Part 2

Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 344 pages
...increased in brightness till it even surpassed that of Jupiter ; it then gradually diminished in splendor, and having exhibited all the variety of tints that...that this star may be periodical, and identical with those which appeared in 945 and 1264. There are, probably, many stars which alternately vanish and...
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A Glance at the Physical Sciences; Or The Wonders of Nature,: In ..., Volume 1

Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 370 pages
...increased in brightness till it even surpassed that of Jupiter ; it then gradually diminished in splendor, and having exhibited all the variety of tints that...that this star may be periodical, and identical with those which appeared in 945 and 1264. There are, probably, many stars which alternately vanish and...
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Chambers's Edinburgh Journal

1844 - 858 pages
...' It is impossible,' says Mrs Somerville, when alluding to this star of 1572, ' to imagine anything more tremendous than a conflagration that could be visible at such a distance.' Whether there were anything in the state of the body alluded to, similar to what we call a conflagration,...
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On the Connection of the Physical Sciences

Mary Somerville - 1846 - 496 pages
...sixteen months after its discovery, without altering its position. It is impossible to imagine anything more tremendous than a conflagration that could be...multitudes that spangle the heavens ; the periods of several have already been pretty well ascertained. Of these the most remarkable is the star Omicron,...
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On the Connection of the Physical Sciences

Mary Somerville - 1846 - 496 pages
...its position. It is impossible to imagine anything more tremendous than a conflagration that could bo visible at such a distance. It is however suspected...multitudes that spangle the heavens ; the periods of several have already been pretty well ascertained. Of these the most remarkable is the star Omi. cron,...
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