 | Sir John Frederick William Herschel - 1833 - 444 pages
...be in a constant state of change. There is nothing which represents so faithfully this appearance as the slow subsidence of some flocculent chemical precipitates in a transparent fluid, when viewed perpendicularly from above: so faithfully, indeed, that it is hardly possible not to be impressed... | |
 | sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - 500 pages
...in a constant state of change. There is nothing which represents so faithfully tliis appearance as the slow subsidence of some flocculent chemical precipitates in a transparent fluid, when viewed perpendicularly from above: so faithfully, indeed, that it is hardly possible not to be impressed... | |
 | 1834 - 596 pages
...be in a constant state of change. There is nothing which represents so faithfully this appearance as the slow subsidence of some flocculent chemical precipitates in a transparent fluid, when viewed perpendicularly from above j so faithfully, indeed, that it is hardly possible not to be impressed... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - 1849 - 672 pages
...be in a constant state of change. There is nothing which represents so faithfully this appearance as the slow subsidence of some flocculent chemical precipitates in a transparent fluid, when viewed perpendicularly from above: so faithfully, indeed, that it is hardly possible not to be impressed... | |
 | John Russell Hind - 1851 - 152 pages
...by this uniform mottling of the Sun's disc has been aptly compared by the same eminent astronomer to the " slow subsidence of some flocculent chemical precipitates in a transparent fluid, when viewed perpendicularly from above." The rotation of the Sun upon his axis was inferred, as already... | |
 | John Russell Hind - 1852 - 222 pages
...by this uniform mottling of the Sun's disc has been aptly compared by the same eminent astronomer to the " slow subsidence of some flocculent chemical precipitates in a transparent fluid, when viewed perpendicularly from above." The rotation of the Sun upon his axis "was inferred, as already... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1854 - 894 pages
...mottled appearance, which may be compared to that which would be presented by the undulated and igitated surface of an ocean of liquid fire, or to a stratum...spots extensive spaces are observed, also covered with gtrtmglj defined curved or branching streaks, more intensely luminous than the other parts of the disk,... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1855 - 350 pages
...may be compared to that which would be presented by the undulated and agitated surface of an ocean ot liquid fire, or to a stratum of luminous clouds of...immediately around the edges of the spots extensive SOLAR SURFACE. spaces are observed, also covered with. strongly defined curved or branching streaks,... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1858 - 912 pages
...or to a stratum of luminous clouds of varying depth and having an unequal surface, or the tppearance produced by the slow subsidence of some flocculent...perpendicularly from above. In the space immediately around the edge* of the spots extensive spaces are observed, also covered with strongly defined curved or branching... | |
 | 1858 - 424 pages
...compare to the wavy surface of an ocean of liquid fire, — or a stratum of luminous clouds, varying in depth and having an unequal surface, — or the appearance...by the slow subsidence of some flocculent chemical precipitate in a transparent fluid, when looked at from above. It has also been observed, that at the... | |
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... a constant state of change. There is nothing which represents so faithfully this appearance as the slow subsidence of some flocculent chemical precipitates in a transparent fluid, when viewed perpendicularly from above... 
