 | James Sime - 1900 - 288 pages
...its axis, and the fall of heavy bodies, leads us on 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. " Whatever fanciful poets might say, in making the sun the abode of blessed spirits, or angry moralists... | |
 | 1900 - 600 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... | |
 | Charles Lane Poor - 1908 - 362 pages
...diversified with hills and valleys and covered with rich vegetation and " most probably also inhabited, like the rest of the planets, by beings w'hose organs...to the peculiar circumstances of that vast globe." This paradise was protected, according to this eminent astronomer, by heavy canopies of clouds from... | |
 | David Peck Todd - 1922 - 420 pages
...strictness of speaking, the only primary one of our system .... It is most probably also inhabited, like the rest of the planets, by beings whose organs...to the peculiar circumstances of that vast globe." But physics and biology were undeveloped sciences in Herschel's days. Herschel knew, however, that... | |
 | John A. Eddy - 1979 - 230 pages
...occasional views of this lower surface, which, Herschel felt, ... is most probably also inhabited, like the rest of the planets, by beings whose organs...to the peculiar circumstances of that vast globe. Other explanations of the 1 9th century attributed sunspots to storms, to bubbles on a liquid Sun,... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1881 - 794 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 BO considerable that it may be objected that... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1881 - 800 pages
...nothing else than a very eminent, large, and lucid planet » • * most probably also inhabited by beinga whose organs are adapted to the peculiar circumstances of that vast globe. G3 The heat produced by the sun's rays on the earth is so considerable that it may be objected that... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1874 - 800 pages
...axis, and the fall of heavy bodies, lead us <*i 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 A. Eddy - 1979 - 228 pages
...occasional views of this lower surface, which, Herschel felt, ... is most probably also inhabited, like the rest of the planets, by beings whose organs...to the peculiar circumstances of that vast globe. Other explanations of the 1 9th century attributed sunspots to storms, to bubbles on a liquid Sun,... | |
 | Michael J. Crowe - 1986 - 708 pages
...other globes of the solar system . . . leads us to suppose that it is most probably . . . inhabited ... by beings whose organs are adapted to the peculiar circumstances of that vast globe."71 Herschel contrasts his theory with that of "fanciful poets" who portray the sun "as a fit... | |
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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... 
