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
| Richard Anthony Proctor - 1876 - 396 pages
...Lardner's supposed demonstration that the eclipses caused by the rings would last but for a short time; * says, ' This will not prevent, however, some considerable...might be cited. Before passing to the opposite view of life in other worlds, a view commonly associated with the name of the late Dr. Whewell, I shall... | |
| Richard Anthony Proctor - 1876 - 348 pages
...acquainted, that we can form no estimate of their requirements. To use Sir John Herschel's words, " We shall do wrong to judge of the fitness or unfitness...and glorious displays of beneficent contrivance." I would venture to point out that the view which I advocated respecting Jupiter and Saturn in the "Expanse... | |
| David Brewster - 1876 - 316 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 judge of the fitness or unfitness of their con1 The author here refers to Sir John Herschel, whose authority he quotes for the Solar eclipse of... | |
| David Brewster - 1876 - 350 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 judge of the fitness or unfitness.of their con1 The anther here refers to Sir John Herschel, whose authority he quotoa for... | |
| David Brewster - 1876 - 354 pages
...see around us, when perhaps the very combinations which only convey images of horror to our minds, may be, in reality, theatres of the. most striking and glorious displays of beneficent con" tiivance" The remarkable phenomenon, however, of a fifteen years' eclipse of the Sun to the regions... | |
| Augustus Clissold - 1877 - 144 pages
...beams upon Saturn, affording to our ideas but an inhospitable asylum to animated beings, he says:*— " But we shall do wrong to judge of the fitness or unfitness...and glorious displays of beneficent contrivance." Moreover, with regard to the rings, Sir John Herschel observes, that:— " Whateverf be the materials... | |
| John J. Prince - 1877 - 184 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...horror may be in reality theatres of the most striking displays of beneficent contrivances." Saturn appears to have an atmosphere dense and cloudy, similar... | |
| Richard Anthony Proctor - 1882 - 298 pages
...habitable as we should understand the term : " The very combinations," as Sir John Herschel has said, " which convey to our minds only images of horror, may...and glorious displays of beneficent contrivance." ' Later, when I began my treatise on ' Other Worlds than Ours,' I still entertained the general theory... | |
| 1882 - 784 pages
...habitable, as we should understand the term : ' The very combinations,' as Sir John Herschel has said, ' which convey to our minds only images of horror, may...theatres of the most striking and glorious displays of beneficert contrivance.' " later, when I began my treatise on " Other Worlds than Ours," I still entertained... | |
| Robert Main - 1882 - 270 pages
...afford (to our ideas) an inhospitable asylum to animated beings, ill compensated by the faint lighl of the satellites. But we shall do wrong to judge of the fitnoss or unfitness of their condition from what we see * Sec Sir J. Ilcrschel's " Results of Astronomical... | |
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