 | Denison Olmsted - 1841 - 486 pages
...Celestial Scenery,' Chapter IV. when it is covered with a very thin coat of white ashes ; and it has a degree of brightness about as strong as that with...such a coal would be seen to glow in faint daylight." That these were really volcanic fires, he considered further evident from the fact, that where a fire,... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1847 - 416 pages
...covered by a very thin coat of white ashes, and it has a degree of brightness about as strong as that which such, a coal would be seen to glow in faint daylight." Such are some of the phenomena from which it has been concluded that volcanoes exist in the moon. That... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 pages
...very thin coat of white ashes, which frequently adhere to it when it has been some time ignited ; and it had a degree of brightness, about as strong as...such a coal would be seen to glow in faint daylight. All the adjacent parts of the volcanic mountain seemed to be faintly illuminated by the eruption, and... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1850 - 586 pages
...a small piece of burning charcoal when it is covered by a very thin coat of white ashes, and it has a degree of brightness about as strong as that with...such a coal would be seen to glow in faint daylight." Such are some of the phenomena from which it has been concluded that volcanoes exist in the moon. That... | |
 | Richard Adams Locke, Joseph Nicolas Nicollet - 1852 - 156 pages
...a small piece of burning charcoal when it is covered by a very thin coat of white ashes, and it has a degree of brightness about as strong as that with...such a coal would be seen to glow in faint daylight." Whether there be any large masses of water in the moon amounting to oceans, seas, or great lakes, is... | |
 | Josiah Crampton - 1853 - 140 pages
...small piece of burning charcoal, when it is covered by a very thin coat of white ashes ; and it has a degree of brightness about as strong as that with...coal would be seen to glow in faint daylight." The foregoing observations led Sir YV. Herschel, who at the time was in possession of better instruments... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - 1855 - 484 pages
...Celestial Scenery,' Chapter IV when it is covered with a very thin coat of white ashes ; and it has a degree of brightness about as strong as that with...such a coal would be seen to glow in faint daylight." That these were really volcanic fires, he considered further evident from the fact, that where a fire,... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1857 - 878 pages
...a small piece of burning charcoal when it is covered by a very thin coat of white ashes, and it has a degree of brightness about as strong as that with...such a coal would be seen to glow in faint daylight." Such are some of the phenomena from which it has been concluded that volcanoes exist in the moon. That... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - 1858 - 454 pages
...Celestial Scenery,' Chapter IV when it is covered with a very thin coat of white ashes ; and it has a degree of brightness about as strong as that with...such a coal would be seen to glow in faint daylight." That these were really volcanic fires, he considered further evident from the fact, that where a fire,... | |
 | 1858 - 424 pages
...small piece of burning charcoal when it is covered with a very thin coat of white ashes, and it has a degree of brightness about as strong as that with...such a coal would be seen to glow in faint daylight." Admiral Smyth, who also felt deeply interested in the matter, thus records his views : " This naturally... | |
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... it had a degree of brightness about as strong as that with which such a coal would be seen to glow in faint daylight. 
