 | sir Henry Enfield Roscoe - 1870 - 452 pages
...by no less a personage than the astronomer Huyghens in 1656. I will read to you Sir John Herschcl's description of this nebula. " The general aspect of the less luminous and 1 This fact has since been observed by Padre Secchi, and Messrs. Lockyer and Frankland. 288 SPECTRUM... | |
 | sir Henry Enfield Roscoe - 1873 - 550 pages
...(see Fig. 86), which was discovered by no less a personage than the astronomer Huyghens in 1656. I will read to you Sir John Herschel's description of...forming the square front of the head is shown with the eighteeu-inch reflector broken up into masses, FIG. 86. whose mottled and curdling light evidently... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1905 - 668 pages
...The numbers and descriptions arc from Sir John Herschel's Catalogue, PhiL Trans. 18C4, part 1. t " The general aspect of the less luminous and cirrous...forming the square front of the head, is shown with the 18-inch reflector broken up into masses, whose mottled and curdling light evidently indicates, by a... | |
 | 1865 - 618 pages
...Nebulae, Phil. Trans. 1864, p. 437. } "The general aspect of the less luminous and cirrous portion in simply nebulous and irresolvable; but the brighter...forming the square front of the head, is shown with the 18-inch reflector broken up into masses, whose mottled and curdling light evidently that it is suitable... | |
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will read to you Sir John Herschel's description of this nebula. "The general aspect of the less luminous and cirrous portion is simply nebulous and irresolvable ; but the brighter portion immediately adjacent to the trapezium forming the square front... 
