... 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 78by William Marshall Watts - 1904 - 325 pagesFull view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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 —... | |
| 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... | |
| 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 ' —... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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