 | 1849 - 428 pages
...reflected solar light, it follows that even these can only be regarded as great masses of thin vapour, susceptible of being penetrated through their whole...from their interior parts and from their surfaces. Nor will any one regard this explanation as forced, or feel disposed to resort to a phosphorescent... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - 1852 - 312 pages
...of matter so light, that the smallest stars are visible through them. They car only be regarded as masses of thin vapor, susceptible of being penetrated...from their interior parts and from their surfaces. " The highest clouds that float in our atmosphere," (says a great astronomer, Sir John Herschel,) "... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - 1855 - 318 pages
...been at times observed on the side next the sun, but these seldom attain any considerable length. 284. The quantity of matter in comets is exceedingly small....as great masses of thin vapor, susceptible of being peneft'ated through their whole substance by the sunbeams, and reflecting them alike from their interior... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - 1855 - 484 pages
...been at times observed on the side next the sun ; but these seldom attain any considerable length. The quantity of matter in comets is exceedingly small....visible through them. They can only be regarded as masses of thin vapor, susceptible of being penetrated through their whole substance by the sunbeams,... | |
 | Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - 1856 - 358 pages
...laid over another with a considerable clear space between them." And again: "It follows that these can only be regarded as great masses of thin vapor,...penetrated through their whole substance by the sunbeams." 533. Comets have always been considered by the ignorant aud superstitious, as the harbingers of war,... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - 1858 - 454 pages
...been at times observed on the side next the sun ; but these seldom attain any considerable length. The quantity of matter in comets is exceedingly small....visible through them. They can only be regarded as masses of thin vapor, susceptible of being penetrated through their whole substance by the sunbeams,... | |
 | Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - 1873 - 358 pages
...clear space bel^^en them.1' And again : " It follows that these can only be regarded as great masses ol thin vapor, susceptible of being penetrated through their whole substance by the sunbeams." 533. Comets have always been considered by the ignorant and superstitious, as the harbingers of war,... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - 1902 - 492 pages
...phases, though we cannot doubt that they shine by the reflected solar light, it follows that even these can only be regarded as great masses of thin vapor,...from their interior parts and from their surfaces. Nor will any one regard this explanation as forced, or feel disposed to resort to a phosphorescent... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - 1840 - 458 pages
...been at times observed on the side next the sun ; but these seldom attain any considerable length. The quantity of matter in comets is exceedingly small....visible through them. They can only be regarded as masses of thin vapor, susceptible of being penetrated through their whole substance by the sunbeams,... | |
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Their tails consist of matter of such tenuity that the smallest stars are visible through them. They can only be regarded as great masses of thin vapor, susceptible of being penetrated through their whole substance by the sunbeams, and reflecting them... 
