The great mystery, however, is to conceive how so enormous a conflagration (if such it be) can be kept up. Every discovery in chemical science here leaves us completely at a loss, or rather, seems to remove farther the prospect of probable explanation. Fuel of the Sun - Page 80by William Mattieu Williams - 1870 - 222 pagesFull view - About this book
| Sir John Frederick William Herschel - 1833 - 444 pages
...p 2 bring the phenomena of even volcanic activity under the general law of solar influence. (337.) The great mystery, however, is to conceive how so...us completely at a loss, or rather, seems to remove farther the prospect of probable explanation. If conjecture might be hazarded, we should look rather... | |
| sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - 500 pages
...p 2 bring the phenomena of even volcanic activity under the general law of solar influence. (337.) The great mystery, however, is to conceive how so...us completely at a loss, or rather, seems to remove farther the prospect of probable explanation. If conjecture might be hazarded, we should look rather... | |
| 1834 - 596 pages
...highly reflective, the fact of their visibility in such a situation can leave no doubt.' — P. 210. ' The great mystery, however, is to conceive how so...completely at a loss, or, rather, seems to remove farther, the prospect of probable explanation. If conjecture might be hazarded, we should look rather... | |
| sir Charles Lyell (bart.) - 1835 - 440 pages
...which again restore them to that luminary.—" It is a mystery," says Herschel, speaking of the sun, "to conceive how so enormous a conflagration (if such...us completely at a loss, or rather seems to remove farther the prospect of probable explanation. May not," he adds, " a continual current of electric... | |
| Thomas Lockerby - 1839 - 566 pages
...and thus bring the phenomena of even volcanoes' activity under the general law of solar influence. The great mystery, however, is to conceive how so...us completely at a loss, or rather seems to remove farther the prospect of probable explanation. The moon has no clouds, nor any indications of an atmosphere.... | |
| John Frederick William Herschel - 1849 - 672 pages
...solar influence.* (400.) The great mystery, however, is to conceive how so enormous a.conflagration (if such it be) can be kept up. Every discovery in...us completely at a loss, or rather, seems to remove farther the prospect of probable explanation. If conjecture might be hazarded, we should look rather... | |
| Hiram Mattison - 1849 - 304 pages
...atmosphere, and no heat would be conducted downward through a gaseous medium increasing rapidly in density. The great mystery, however, is to conceive how so...enormous a conflagration (if such it be) can be kept up from age to age. Every discovery in chemical science here leaves us completely at a loss, or rather... | |
| Archibald Tucker Ritchie - 1850 - 648 pages
...the continual generation and filling in of the pores, without having recourse to internal causes " The great mystery, however, is to conceive how so...can be kept up. Every discovery in chemical science leaves us here completely at a loss, or rather, seems to remove further the prospect of probable explanation.... | |
| Archibald Tucker Ritchie - 1850 - 642 pages
...and thus bring the phenomena of even volcanic activity under the general law of solar influence. " The great mystery, however, is to conceive how so enormous a conflagration (if such it he) can be kept up. Every discovery in chemical science here leaves us completely at a loss, or, rather,... | |
| John Frederick William Herschel - 1851 - 706 pages
...thus bring the phenomena of even volcanic activity under the general law of solar influence. " (400.) The great mystery, however, is to conceive how so...us completely at a loss, or rather, seems to remove farther the prospect of probable explanation. If conjecture might be hazarded, we should look rather... | |
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