 | sir Henry Enfield Roscoe - 1873 - 550 pages
...system. If the stars were moving towards or from the earth, their motion, compounded with the earth-s motion, would alter to an observer on the earth the...vapours of the same substances existing in the stars. that the displacement of a line, or of a group of lines, to ail amount smaller even than the interval... | |
 | Royal Astronomical Society - 1885 - 572 pages
...of radial stellar motion, for Dr. Huggins has remarked that at the time they were fully aware that " if the stars were moving towards or from the Earth,...vapours of the same substances existing in the stars." (PJiil. Trans., 1868, p. 529.) Owing, however, to the insufficiency of the apparatus in these early... | |
 | 1885 - 600 pages
...of radial stellar motion, for Dr. Huggins has remarked that at the time they were fully aware that " if the stars were moving towards or from the Earth,...vapours of the same substances existing in the stars." (Phil. Trans., 1868, p. 529.) Owing, however, to the insufficiency of the apparatus in these early... | |
 | Royal Astronomical Society - 1833 - 572 pages
...or from the Earth, their motion, compounded with the Earth's motion, would alter to an observer ou the Earth the refrangibility of the light emitted...vapours of the same substances existing in the stars." (Phil. Trans., 1868, p. 529.) Owing, however, to the insufficiency of the apparatus in these early... | |
 | Royal Institution of Cornwall - 1891 - 582 pages
...hydrogen, or of any other substance or gas. These observations have been made on the theory that " if the stars were moving towards or from the earth,...the absorption of the vapours of the same substances in the stars."* that I shall be in order if I state, without occupying too much of your attention,... | |
 | Astronomical Society of the Pacific - 1909 - 614 pages
...refrangibility of the light emitted by them, and consequently the lines of terrestrial substatices would no longer coincide in position in the spectrum...with the dark lines produced by the absorption of the vapors of the same substances existing in the stars." Repeated efforts to measure the velocities of... | |
 | 1868 - 524 pages
...chemical constitution of the investing atmospheres of the stars, but might also possibly serve to reveal something of the motions of the stars relatively to...of the same substances existing in the stars. The method employed by them would certainly have revealed an alteration of refrangibility as great as that... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1911 - 848 pages
...motion, compounded with the earth's motion, would alter to an observer on the earth the refrangibllity of the light emitted by them, and consequently the...with the dark lines produced by the absorption of the vapors of the same substances existing in the stars. Repeated efforts to measure the velocities of... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1912 - 742 pages
...their motion compounded with the Earth's motion would alter to an observer on the Earth the wave-length of the light emitted by them, and consequently the...the absorption of the vapours of the same substances in the stars. The two-prism spectroscope he employed was sufficient to show that no displacement in... | |
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... something of the motions of the stars relatively to our system. If the stars were moving towards or from the earth, their motion, compounded with the earth's motion, would alter to an observer on the earth the refrangibility of the light emitted by... 
