 | 1910 - 742 pages
...A feeling as if of inspiration seized me: I felt as if I had it now in my power to lift a veil that had never before been lifted ; as if a key had been...which would unlock a door which had been regarded as for ever closed to man." Huggin's at once resolved to apply the new method of research to the stars... | |
 | Hector Macpherson - 1905 - 334 pages
...... A feeling as of inspiration seized me : I felt as if I had it now in my power to lift a veil that had never before been lifted ; as if a key had been...which would unlock a door which had been regarded as for ever closed to man." It was plain, however, that unless there was a great improvement in the spectroscope,... | |
 | Astronomical Society of the Pacific - 1909 - 614 pages
...many of the problems of the heavenly bodies filled my mind, that the hews reached me of KIRCHHOFF'S great discovery of the true nature and the chemical...regarded as forever closed to man — the veil and door behind1 which lay the unknown mystery of the true nature of the heavenly bodies. This was especially... | |
 | 1909 - 518 pages
...as if a key had been put into my hands which would unlock a door which had been regarded as for ever closed to man — the veil and door behind which lay...mystery of the true nature of the heavenly bodies," and hence to lay the foundations of Astrophysics. AL CORTIB. A Southern Solar Observatory. WE learn... | |
 | 1909 - 512 pages
...as if a key had been put into my hands which would unlock a door which had been regarded as for ever closed to man — the veil and door behind which lay...mystery of the true nature of the heavenly bodies," and hence to lay the foundations of Astrophysics. AL CORTIE. A Southern Solar Observatory. WE learn... | |
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