 Jupiter ; it then gradually diminished in splendour, and, having exhibited all the variety of tints that indicate the changes of combustion, vanished sixteen months after its discovery, without altering its position. It is impossible to imagine anything...  The Connection of the Physical Sciences - Page 298by Mary Somerville - 1834 - 356 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Patterson - 1875 - 554 pages
...magnitude, assuming in succession the hues of a dying conflagration, and then finally disappeared." "It is impossible to imagine anything more tremendous...conflagration that could be visible at such a distance."* Astronomers now recognize a class of such Temporary * Nicholl's Solar System, 188. Connection of Physical... | |
 | Joseph Harvey Ward - 1884 - 224 pages
...diminished, assuming in succession the hues of a dying conflagration, and then finally disappeared. It is impossible to imagine anything more tremendous...conflagration that could be visible at such a distance" (Nichott's Solar System, page 118). Sir John Herschell describes the star, Eta Argus, which, in the... | |
 | Louis Antoine Godey, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1852 - 1216 pages
...reappeared, and, after many variations in light, vanished after two years, and has never since been teen. In 1572, a star was discovered in Cassiopeia, which...surpassed that of Jupiter; It then gradually diminished in splendor, and, after exhibiting all the variety of tints that indicates the changes of combustion,... | |
 | Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.) - 1880 - 564 pages
...earth by those bodies which are set on fire and then gradually extinguished." Mrs. Somerville says, " It is impossible to imagine anything more tremendous...conflagration that could be visible at such a distance." •A Presuming that in the course of time all possible relations in the positions of the heavenly bodies... | |
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