On the other hand, in the regions beneath the dark side, a solar eclipse of fifteen years in duration, under their shadow, must afford (to our ideas) an inhospitable asylum to animated beings, ill compensated by the faint light of the satellites. But... Essays in Astronomy - Page 821900 - 536 pagesFull view - About this book
| Denison Olmsted - 1855 - 318 pages
...(to our ideas) an inhospitable abode to animated beings, but ill compensated by the full light of its satellites. But we shall do wrong to judge of the...striking and glorious displays of beneficent contrivance. (Sir J. Herschel.) 256. Saturn is attended by eight satellites, one having been recently added to the... | |
| 1856 - 540 pages
...asylum to animated beinss, ill compensated by the faint light of the satellites. But we shall do w ro"ng to judge of the fitness or unfitness of their condition...combinations which convey to our minds only images of horrors, may be in reality theatres of the most striking and glorious displays of magnificent continuance.'... | |
| 1857 - 602 pages
...proceeding, as Sir John Herschel has well remarked, to judge of the fitness or unfitness of such conditions from what we see around us, " when, perhaps, the very...and glorious displays of beneficent contrivance." 1857.] [April, Another satellite, the eighth, discovered in the year 1848, coincidently by Mr. Lassel... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1857 - 588 pages
...proceeding, as Sir John Herschel has well remarked, to judge of the fitness or unfitness of such conditions from what we see around us, " when, perhaps, the very...and glorious displays of beneficent contrivance." Another satellite, the eighth, discovered in the year 1 848, coïncidently by Mr. Lassel of Liverpool,... | |
| sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1858 - 790 pages
...— to be eclipsed wholly or partially by it at its under edge, and again to emerge before setting. This will not prevent, however, some considerable...striking and glorious displays of beneficent contrivance. (523.) Of Uranus we see nothing but a small round uniformly illuminated disc, without rings, belts,... | |
| Denison Olmsted - 1858 - 318 pages
...(to our ideas) an inhospitable abode to animated beings, but ill compensated by the full light of its satellites. But we shall do wrong to judge of the...striking and glorious displays of beneficent contrivance. (Sir J. Herschel.) 256. Saturn is attended by eight satellites, one having been recently added to the... | |
| Denison Olmsted - 1858 - 454 pages
...(to our ideas) an inhospitable abode to animated beings, but ill compensated by the full light of its satellites. But we shall do wrong to judge of the...and glorious displays of beneficent contrivance." Saturn is attended by seven satellites. Although they are bodies of considerable size, their" great... | |
| Mary Ward - 1859 - 310 pages
...must afford (to our ideas) an inhospitable asylum to animated beings, ill compensated by the faint light of the satellites. But we shall do wrong to...and glorious displays of beneficent contrivance." The story of the discovery of Saturn's rings is scarcely less interesting than that of Galileo's first... | |
| Samuel Hallett Griffith - 1860 - 240 pages
...shadow must afford (to our idea) an inhospitable asylum to animated beings, ill compensated by the faint light of the satellites. But we shall do wrong to...striking and glorious displays of beneficent contrivance !" What shall we say of those other planets, so remote as to be almost invisible, and whose existence... | |
| Thomas Clark Westfield - 1863 - 266 pages
...shadow must afford to our ideas an inhospitable asylum to animated beings, ill compensated by the faint light of the satellites. But we shall do wrong to...and glorious displays of beneficent contrivance." Other writers on this subject, however, ignore this fact ; and Dr. Lardner, in a memoir read before... | |
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