 ... the substances by which in both cases the light was emitted. The great fixity of carbon seems, indeed, to raise some difficulty in the way of accepting the apparently obvious inference from these prismatic observations. Some comets have approached...  Spectrum analysis, 6 lects - Page 305by sir Henry Enfield Roscoe - 1869Full view - About this book
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1868 - 662 pages
...carbon, necessarily suggests the identity of the substances by which in both cases the light was emitted. The great fixity of carbon seems, indeed, to raise...way of accepting the apparently obvious inference from these prismatic observations. Some comets have approached sufficiently near the sun to acquire... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1868 - 654 pages
...carbon, necessarily suggests the identity of the substances by which in both cases the light was emitted. The great fixity of carbon seems, indeed, to raise...way of accepting the apparently obvious inference from these prismatic observations. Some comets have approached sufficiently near the sun to acquire... | |
 | 1868 - 1022 pages
...carbon, necessarily suggests the ideutity of the substances by which in both cases the light was emitted. The great fixity of carbon seems, indeed, to raise...way of accepting the apparently obvious inference from these prismatic observations. Some comets have approached sufficiently near the sun to acquire... | |
 | Henry Enfield Roscoe - 1870 - 514 pages
...the tail and some parts of the comae of comets, which shows that a part of their light is reflected. The observations of the spectrum of Comet II. contained...carbon, appear to be almost decisive of the nature of coinetary light. The great fixity of carbon seems indeed to raise some difficulty in the way of accepting... | |
 | 1869 - 826 pages
...necessarily suggests the identity »f the substances by which in both cases the light was emitted. The great fixity of carbon seems, indeed, to raise...way of accepting the apparently obvious inference from these prismatic observations. Some omets have approached sufficiently near the ran to acquire... | |
 | Henry Enfield Roscoe - 1873 - 542 pages
...the tail and some parts of the coma? of comets, which shows that a part of their light is reflected. The observations of the spectrum of Comet II. contained...observations. Some comets have approached the sun sufficiently near to acquire a temperature high enough to convert even carbon into vapour. 1 Indeed... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1874 - 562 pages
...defiant gas. Hence it was suggested by Huggins that they consisted of carbon vapour. He writes : — " The great fixity of carbon seems indeed to raise some...observations. Some comets have approached the sun sufficiently near to acquire a temperature high enough to convert carbon into vapour. Indeed, for these... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1874 - 562 pages
...olefiant gas. Hence it was suggested by Huggins that they consisted of carbon vapour. He writes : — " The great fixity of carbon seems indeed to raise some...observations. Some comets have approached the sun sufficiently near to acquire a temperature high enough to convert carbon into vapour. Indeed, for these... | |
 | 1875 - 332 pages
...defiant gas. Hence it was suggested by Huggins that they consisted of carbon vapour. He writes: — -" The great fixity of carbon seems indeed to raise some difficulty in the way of accepting the obvious inference of these prismatic observations. Some comets have approached the sun sufficiently... | |
 | 1868 - 524 pages
...carbon, necessarily suggests the identity of the substances by which in both cases the light was emitted. The great fixity of carbon seems, indeed, to raise...way of accepting the apparently obvious inference from these prismatic observations. Some comets have approached sufficiently near the sun to acquire... | |
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