 Swan, which, after becoming invisible, reappeared, and having undergone many variations in light, vanished after two years, and has never since been seen. In 1572 a star was discovered in Cassiopeia, which rapidly increased in brightness till it even...  On the Connection of the Physical Sciences - Page 349by Mary Somerville - 1846 - 460 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Mary Somerville - 1831 - 710 pages
...then gradually diminished in splendour, and after exhibiting all the variety of tints that indicates the changes of combustion, vanished sixteen months...altering its position. It is impossible to imagine any thing more tremendous than a conflagration that could be visible at such a distance. Some stars... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1831 - 720 pages
...then gradually diminished in splendour, and after exhibiting all the variety of tints that indicates the changes of combustion, vanished sixteen months...discovery, without altering its position. It is impossible toimagine any thing more tremendous than a conflagration that could be visible at such a distance.... | |
 | Alexander Copland - 1832 - 586 pages
...have been onfre when it was visible to us; adding, that — "it is impossible to conceive any thing more tremendous than a conflagration that could be visible at such a distance." — But its variableness of colour may have depended on causes wiih which we are not acquainted, for... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1834 - 484 pages
...then gradually diminished in splendour, and after exhibiting all the variety of tints that indicates the changes of combustion, vanished sixteen months...appeared in the years 945 and 1264. There are probably many stars which alternately vanish and reappear among the innumerable multitudes that spangle the... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1835 - 532 pages
...increased in brightness till it even surpassed that of Jupiter; it then gradually diminished in splendour, and having exhibited all the variety of tints that...altering its position. It is impossible to imagine any thing more tremendous than a conflagration that could be visible at such a distance. It is, however,... | |
 | Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - 1838 - 350 pages
...paleness, in which its light expired. It is impossible, says Mrs. Somerville, to imagine any thing more tremendous than a conflagration that could be visible at such a distance.^ It was seenrjbr sixteen nylnths.^) fSome astronomers imagined that it would reappear again after 150 years... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1840 - 858 pages
...sixteen months after its discovery, without altering its position. It is impossible to imagine any thing more tremendous than a conflagration that could be...identical with the stars which appeared in the years 9*5, and 1264. There are probably many stars which alternately vanish and reappear among DD 2 the innumerable... | |
 | 1840 - 460 pages
...stupendous events. " It is impossible," says Mrs. Sommervilie, when alluding to the star of 1572, " to imagine anything more tremendous than a conflagration that could be visible at such a distance." Whether there was anything in the existing state of the body alluded to similar to what we call a conflagration... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 344 pages
...head of the Swan, which, after becoming invisible, reappeared, and having undergone many variations of light, vanished after two years, and has never since...altering its position. It is impossible to imagine any thing more tremendous than a conflagration that could be visible at such a distance. It is, however,... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 370 pages
...head of the Swan, which, after becoming invisible, reappeared, and having undergone many variations of light, vanished after two years, and has never since...altering its position. It is impossible to imagine any thing more tremendous than a conflagration that could be visible at such a distance. It is, however,... | |
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