| James Inman - 1872 - 818 pages
...light ; from the consideration that the apparent place of a fixed star cannot be the same when the eye is at rest as when it is moving in any other direction than that of a line passing through the eye and the star ; and that, when the eye moves first in one direction and... | |
| William Henry Smyth - 1881 - 778 pages
...light is propagated in time, the apparent place of a fixed object will not be the same when the eye is at rest, as when it is moving in any other direction...than that of the line passing through the eye and the object ; and, that when the eye is moving in different directions, the apparent place of the object... | |
| William Henry Smyth - 1881 - 778 pages
...light is propagated in time, the apparent place of a fixed object will not be the same when the eye is at rest, as when it is moving in any other direction...than that of the line passing through the eye and the object ; and, that when the eye is moving in different directions, the apparent place of the object... | |
| Arthur Berry - 1899 - 578 pages
...light was propagated in time, the apparent place of a fixed object would not be the same when the eye is at rest, as when it is moving in any other direction...the eye and object ; and that when the eye is moving * The story is given in T. Thomson's History of the Royal Society, published more than So years afterwards... | |
| 1915 - 536 pages
...Light was propagated in Time, the apparent Place of a first Object would not be the same when the Eye is at Rest, as when it is moving in any other Direction,...than that of the Line passing through the Eye and the Object ; and that, when the Eye is moving in different Directions, the apparent Place of the Object... | |
| Washington Academy of Sciences (Washington, D.C.) - 1916 - 806 pages
...light was propagated in time, the apparent place of a fixed object would not be the same when the eye is at rest, as when it is moving in any other direction...than that of the line passing through the eye and the object; and that, when the eye is moving in different directions, the apparent place of the object... | |
| Michael G. Hennerici, Michael Hennerici, Stephen P. Meairs - 2001 - 538 pages
...(Doppler, 1843) was actually based on the earlier work of the Englishman James Bradley, who had concluded that '. . . when the Eye is moving in different Directions,...the apparent Place of the Object would be different . . .' (Bradley, 1729). Moreover, Doppler, who was trying to explain the different colours of stars,... | |
| Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1865 - 462 pages
...light was propagated in time, the apparent place of a fixed object would not be the same when the eye is at rest as when it is moving in any other direction...apparent place of the object would be different." Bradley examines then, in detail, the apparent positions which the stars should have from the combination... | |
| Tofigh Heidarzadeh - 2008 - 283 pages
...Light was propagated in Time, the apparent Place of a fixt Object would not be the same when the Eye is at Rest, as when it is moving in any other Direction,...Directions, the apparent Place of the Object would be different."379 Bradley's discovery, in addition to confirming the orbital motion of the earth, and... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1915 - 942 pages
...Light was propagated in Time, the apparent Place of a fixed Object would not be the same when ' the Eye is at Rest, as when it is moving in any other Direction,...than that of the Line passing through the Eye and the Object ; and that, when the Eye is moving in different Directions, the apparent Place of the Object... | |
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