 | 1897 - 918 pages
...extent the feeling of excited suspense, mingled with a degree of awe, with which, after a few moments of hesitation, I put my eye to the spectroscope. Was...only! At first, I suspected some displacement of the prism, and mat I was looking at a reflection of the illuminated slit from one of its faces. This thought... | |
 | William Wallace Payne, Herbert C. Wilson, Curvin Henry Gingrich - 1910 - 742 pages
...extent the feeling of excited suspense, mingled with a degree of awe with which after a few moments of hesitation I put my eye to the spectroscope. Was...not about to look into a secret place of Creation ? The spectrum was one of bright lines proving conclusively its gaseous nature. By 1808 Huggins had... | |
 | 1900 - 600 pages
...extent the feeling of excited suspense, mingled with a degree of awe, with which, after a few moments of hesitation, I put my eye to the spectroscope. Was...only! At first I suspected some displacement of the prism, and that I was looking at a reflection of the illuminated slit from one of its faces. This thought... | |
 | William Marshall Watts - 1904 - 414 pages
...evening of August 29, 1864, I directed the telescope for the first time to a planetary nebula in Draco. I looked into the spectroscope. No spectrum such as...only ! At first I suspected some displacement of the prism, and that I was looking at a reflection of the illuminated slit from one of FIG. 70. — Ring... | |
 | Hector Macpherson - 1905 - 334 pages
...extent the feeling of excited suspense, mingled with a degree of awe, with which after a few moments of hesitation I put my eye to the spectroscope. Was...not about to look into a secret place of Creation ? " To his surprise, the spectrum was one of bright lines, which proved conclusively that the nebula... | |
 | Astronomical Society of the Pacific - 1909 - 614 pages
...clearly that, notwithstanding the Parsonstown revelations, the evidence from the observation of nebulae up to that time was really in favor of their being...only ! At first I suspected some displacement of the prism, and that I was looking at a reflection of the illuminated slit from one of its faces. This thought... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1909 - 1374 pages
...extent the feeling of excited suspense, mingled with a degree of awe, with which, after a few moments of hesitation, I put my eye to the spectroscope. Was...not about to look into a secret place of creation ? ' Look then he did, and saw a nebular spectrum. But it was not a continuous spectrum like that of... | |
 | Astronomical Society of the Pacific - 1910 - 316 pages
...clearly that, notwithstanding the Parsonstown revelations, the evidence from the observation of nebulae up to that time was really in favor of their being...only ! At first I suspected some displacement of the prism, and that I was looking at a reflection of the illuminated slit from one of its faces. This thought... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1911 - 846 pages
...nebulse up to that time was really in favor of their being early stages of an evolutional progression. I looked Into the spectroscope. No spectrum such as...only. At first I suspected some displacement of the prism, and that I was looking at a reflection of the Illuminated slit from one of its faces. This thought... | |
 | 1912 - 998 pages
...extent the feeling of excited suspense, mingled with a degree of awe, with which, after a few moments' hesitation, I put my eye to the spectroscope. Was...only! At first I suspected some displacement of the prism. . . . This thought was scarcely more than momentary; then the true interpretation flashed upon... | |
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I looked into the spectroscope. No spectrum such as I expected ! A single bright line only ! At first I suspected some displacement of the prism, and that I was looking at a reflection of the illuminated slit from one of its faces. This thought was scarcely... 
