| 1838 - 524 pages
...our own ; while his magnificent speculations on the Milky Way, the constitution of nebula), &c. |&c., first opened the road to the conception that what...series of similar formations which ought to bear the name. [MILKY WAY ; NEBUL.B ; STARS, DOUBLE, &c.] Imagination roves with ease upon such subjects ; but... | |
| 1839 - 524 pages
...our own; while his magnificent speculations on the Milky Way, the constitution of nebulas, &c. ;&c., first opened the road to the conception that what...series of similar formations which ought to bear the name. [MILKY WAY; NKBUL.E; STARS, DOUBLE, &c.] Imagination roves with ease upon such subjects ; but... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 370 pages
...constitution of the Nebulce, first opened the road to the conception that what was called the<tiniverse might be, and in all probability is, but a detached...which the solar system belongs. About 2000 of these stare are visible to the naked eye ; but when we view the heavens with a telescope, their number seems... | |
| 1851 - 614 pages
...our own ; while his magnificent speculations on the Milky Way, and the constitution of the Nebulœ, first opened the road to the conception that what...similar formations, which ought to bear the same name. We have not space to pursue this topic at length, and can but briefly notice the FIXED STAUS, or that... | |
| John Timbs - 1860 - 478 pages
...besides our own; while his magnificent foreseeings of the Milky Way, the constitution of nebulae, etc., first opened the road to the conception that what...series of similar formations which ought to bear the name. Imagination roves with ease upon such subjects ; but even that daring faculty would have rejected... | |
| John Timbs - 1860 - 432 pages
...besides our own ; while his magnificent foreseeings of the Milky Way, the constitution of nebulae, &c., first opened the road to the conception that what...probability is, but a detached and minute portion of that intermmable series of similar formations which ought to bear the name. Imagination roves with ease... | |
| William Walker - 1862 - 256 pages
...that motion. Herschel's magnificent speculations on the Milky Way, the constitution of nebula), &c., first opened the road to the conception, that what was called the universe was, in all probability, but a detached and minute portion of that fathomless series of similar formations... | |
| ROBERT HUNT F.R.S, F.S.S. - 1862 - 256 pages
...that motion. Herschel's magnificent speculations on the Milky Way, the constitution of nebuke, &c., first opened the road to the conception, that what was called the universe was, in all probability, but a detached and minute portion of that fathomless series of similar formations... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1864 - 678 pages
...general views with a habit of scrupulous obedience to the intimations of existing analogies, he wras precisely the man to quit paths which, through familiarity,...similar formations, which ought to bear the same name. We have not space to pursue this topic at length, and can but briefly notice the FIXED STARS, or that... | |
| 1864 - 876 pages
...the constitution of nebulae, etc., first opened the road to the conception that what was called Hhe universe might be, and in all probability is, but...series of similar formations which ought to bear the name. Imagination roves with ease on such subjects; but even that daring faculty would have rejected... | |
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