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" ... associated in my memory with the profound awe which I felt on looking for the first time at that which no eye of man had seen, and which even the scientific imagination could not foreshow. The attempt seemed almost hopeless. For not only are the nebulae... "
An Introduction to the Study of Spectrum Analysis - Page 78
by William Marshall Watts - 1904 - 325 pages
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 214

1897 - 918 pages
...year, 1864, to begin some observations in a region hitherto unexplored; and which, to this day, remain associated in my memory with the profound awe which...attempt seemed almost hopeless. For not only are the nebulre very faintly luminous — as Marius put it, "like a rushlight shining through a horn"— but...
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Essays in Astronomy

1900 - 600 pages
...year, 1864, to begin some observations in a region hitherto unexplored; and which, to this day, remain associated in my memory with the profound awe which...are the nebulae very faintly luminous — as Marius put it, " like a rush-light shining through a horn " — but their feeble shining can not be increased...
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William Herschel and His Work

James Sime - 1900 - 288 pages
...sometimes done.1 " The profound awe," says the discoverer of the gaseous nature of some nebulae, " which I felt on looking for the first time at that...even the scientific imagination could not foreshow," is the well expressed wonder of true science, when it penetrates into the workshops of the Almighty,...
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Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science, Volume 101

1910 - 442 pages
...early autumn of 1864 to begin some observations in a region hitherto unexplored, and which to this day remains associated in my memory with the profound...the scientific imagination could not foreshow." The results of the spectroscopic examination were startling. The light of the nebula first examined —...
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Report of the Annual Meeting of the South African Association for ..., Volume 18

1922 - 606 pages
...been able to obtain." tions in a region hitherto unexplored, and which, to this day (1897), remain associated in my memory with the profound awe which...are the nebulae very faintly luminous — as Marius put it, 'like a rushlight shining through a horn' — but their feeble shining cannot be increased...
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The Twentieth Century, Volume 41

1897 - 1044 pages
...year, 1864, to begin some observations in a region hitherto unexplored ; and which, to this day, remain associated in my memory with the profound awe which...attempt seemed almost hopeless. For not only are the nebula? very faintly luminous — as Marius put it, ' like a rush-light shining through a horn ' —...
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Modern Theories of the Universe: From Herschel to Hubble

Michael J. Crowe - 1994 - 468 pages
...year, 1864, to begin some observations in a region hitherto unexplored; and which, to this day, remain associated in my memory with the profound awe which...are the nebulae very faintly luminous — as Marius put it, "like a rushlight shining through a horn" — but their feeble shining cannot be increased...
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The Nineteenth Century, Volume 41

1897 - 1074 pages
...year, 1864, to begin some observations in a region hitherto unexplored ; and which, to this day, remain associated in my memory with the profound awe which...are the nebulae very faintly luminous — as Marius put it, ' like a rush-light shining through a horn ' — but their feeble shining cannot be increased...
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