| 1864 - 968 pages
...Kepler's celebrated statement that " there are more comets in 1 Continued from TO!, xxxvi, p. 266. the heavens than fish in the ocean," is founded on...on account of their smallness, may be considered as cosmical atoms, and which Arago has appropriately called asteroids. They, like the planets and the... | |
| 1865 - 372 pages
...We shall leave, however, all suppositions concerning subjects so distant from us both in time an'.1, space, and confine our attention exclusively to what...on account of their smallness, may be considered as cosmical atoms, and which Arago has appropriately called asteroids. They, like the planets and the... | |
| Edward Livingston Youmans - 1865 - 490 pages
...planetary system, of which the comets deserve to be mentioned first. Kepler's celebrated statement that u there are more comets in the heavens than fish in...on account of their smallness, may be considered as cosmical atoms, and which Arago has appropriately called asteroids. They, like the planets and the... | |
| Edward Livingston Youmans, William Robert Grove - 1865 - 500 pages
...celebrated statement that " there are more comets in the heavens than fish in the ocean," is founded oa the fact that, of all the comets belonging to our...on account of their smallness, may be considered as cosmical atoms, and which Arago has appropriately called asteroids. They, like the planets and the... | |
| Edward Livingston Youmans, William Robert Grove - 1865 - 512 pages
...than fish in the ocean," is founded on the fact that, of all the comets belonging to our solar svstem, comparatively few can be seen by the inhabitants of...on account of their smallness, may be considered as cosmical atoms, and which Arago has appropriately called asteroids. They, like the planets and the... | |
| Edward Livingston Youmans - 1870 - 484 pages
...observation of the existing state of things. Besides the fourteen known planets with their eighteen satellites, a great many other cosmical masses move...on account of their smallness, may be considered as cosmical atoms, and which Arago has appropriately called asteroids. They, like the planets and the... | |
| 1865 - 372 pages
...founded on the fact that, of all the comets belonging to our solar system, comparatively few can bo seen by the inhabitants of the earth, and therefore...system. These are masses which, on account of their smallncss, may be considered as cosmical atoms, and hich Arago has appropriately called asteroids.... | |
| 1863 - 1212 pages
...observation of the existing state of things. Besides the fourteen known planets with their eighteen satellites, a great many other cosmical masses move...on account of their smallness, may be considered as cosmical atoms, and which Arago has appropriately called asteroids. They, like the planets and the... | |
| 1865 - 430 pages
...the inhabitants of the earth ; "and, therefore, the not inconsiderable number of actually-observed comets obliges us, according to the rules of the calculus...on account of their smallness, may be considered as cosmical atoms, and * Vii vim, living force, a term first given by Leibnitz to force when producing... | |
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