It was by applying this new method that he arrived at the conclusions, on which Struve afterwards so strongly insisted, that parts of the sidereal system are absolutely unfathomable. Yet his former and sound principle of interpretation, and the principle... Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society - Page 509by Royal Astronomical Society - 1873Full view - About this book
| 1873 - 672 pages
...now applied the new panging test, with results thus irreconcilable with those he had before obtained. It was by applying this new method that he arrived...penetrating to the extreme limits of the sidereal system, lie was in reality onlij analysing more and more search iitflly an aggregation in which many... | |
| Royal Astronomical Society - 1873 - 672 pages
...now applied the new gauging test, with results thus irreconcilable with those he had before obtained. It was by applying this new method that he arrived...that where Herschel thought he was penetrating to t/ie extreme limits of the sidereal system, he was in reality only analysing more and more searchiiigly... | |
| Richard Anthony Proctor - 1874 - 404 pages
...now applied the new gauging test, with results thus irreconcilable with those he had before obtained. It was by applying this new method that he arrived...applied to the Magellanic Clouds, show that where (in extreme old age) Herschel thouyht he was penetrating to the extreme limits of the sidereal system,... | |
| Richard Anthony Proctor - 1874 - 480 pages
...Whewell, and Herbert Spencer applied to the Magellanic Clouds, show that where (in extreme old age) Herschel thought he was penetrating to the extreme limits of the sidereal system, he was in reality only analysing more and more searchingly an aggregation in which many orders... | |
| John Ellard Gore - 1907 - 412 pages
...fathomless." But the idea that the Milky Way is really " fathomless " is probably incorrect. Proctor says, " Where Herschel thought he was penetrating to the extreme limits of the sidereal system, he was in reality only analyzing more and more searchingly an aggregation in which many orders... | |
| Hector Macpherson - 1926 - 220 pages
...extended in the plane of the Galaxy than Struve, or even Herschel, had believed. ' Where ', he wrote, ' Herschel thought he was penetrating to the extreme limits of the sidereal system, he was in reality only analysing more and more searchingly an aggregation in which many orders... | |
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