 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1871 - 232 pages
...ventures, in the last place, to think it probable that the sun is even furnished with inhabitants, whose organs are adapted to the peculiar circumstances of that vast globe. A singular appearance is sometimes observed to attend the sun at certain seasons of the year, particularly... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1875 - 452 pages
...axis, and the fall of heavy bodies, lead us on to suppose that it is most probably also inhabited, like the rest of the planets, by beings whose organs...to the peculiar circumstances of that vast globe. Whatever fanciful poets may say in making the sun the abode of blessed spirits, or angry moralists... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1875 - 232 pages
...ventures, in the last place, to think it probable that the sun is even furnished with inhabitants, whose organs are adapted to the peculiar circumstances of that vast globe. A singular appearance is sometimes observed to attend the sun at certain seasons of the year, particularly... | |
 | Wonders - 1877 - 136 pages
...rotation of its axis, and the fall of heavy bodies, lead us to suppose that it is most probably inhabited, like the rest of the planets, by beings whose organs...to the peculiar circumstances of that vast globe. (That is, a race of beings who can safely inhale burning metallic vapours, dwell on the shores of oceans... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1881 - 806 pages
...to be nothing else than a very eminent, large, and lucid planet * * * most probably also inhabited by beings whose organs are adapted to the peculiar circumstances of that vast globe. 63 The heat produced by the sun's rays on the earth is so considerable that it may be objected that... | |
 | Edward Singleton Holden, Charles Sheldon Hastings - 1881 - 132 pages
...to be uothing else than a very eminent, large, and lucid planet * * * most probably also inhabited by beings whose organs are adapted to the peculiar circumstances of that vast globe. 63 The heat produced by the sun's rays on the earth is so considerable that it may be objected that... | |
 | 1886 - 860 pages
...axis, and the fall of heavy bodies, leads us on to suppose that it is most probably also inhabited, like the rest of the planets, by beings whose organs...to the peculiar circumstances of that vast globe." This notion of Sir William Herschel as to the world like condition of the sun was conceived just about... | |
 | Agnes Mary Clerke - 1893 - 614 pages
...axis, and the fall of heavy bodies, leads us on to suppose that it is most probably also inhabited, like the rest of the planets, by beings whose organs...to the peculiar circumstances of that vast globe." We smile at conclusions which our present knowledge condemns as extravagant and impossible, but such... | |
 | 1914 - 772 pages
..."appears to be nothing else than a very eminent, large, and lurid planet." "It is most probably inhabited, like the rest of the planets, by beings whose organs...to the peculiar circumstances of that vast globe." In the same paper, curiously enough, he discussed the moon and reached the conclusion that our satellite... | |
 | Edward Singleton Holden - 1899 - 484 pages
...appears to be nothing else than a very eminent, large and lucid planet . . . most probably also inhabited by beings whose organs are adapted to the peculiar circumstances of that vast globe." It is certain that the Sun is not inhabited by any beings with organs. This conclusion is now as obvious... | |
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Its similarity to the other globes of the solar system with regard to its solidity, its atmosphere, and its diversified surface; the rotation... 
