 | 1900 - 600 pages
...on certain of the nebulae. The nature of these mysterious bodies was still an unread riddle. Toward the end of the last century the elder Herschel, from...observation of nebulae up to that time was really in favour of their being early stages of an evolutional progression. On the evening of the 2Qth of August,... | |
 | William Marshall Watts - 1904 - 414 pages
...capable of resolution into stars. According to this view, nebulae would have to ( be regarded, not as the early stages of an evolutional progress, but rather...stars too remote to be resolved by our instruments. "On the evening of August 29, 1864, I directed the telescope for the first time to a planetary nebula... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1911 - 840 pages
...gain ground that all nebulie may be capable of resolution into stars. According to this view, nebulre would have to be regarded, not as early stages of...Herbert Spencer showed clearly that, notwithstanding the Tarsonstown revelations, the evidence from the observation of uebulte up to that time was really In... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1911 - 846 pages
...evolutional progress, but rather as stellar galaxies already formed, external to our system — eosmical " sandheaps " — too remote to be separated into their...revelations, the evidence from the observation of nebulse up to that time was really in favor of their being early stages of an evolutional progression.... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1911 - 844 pages
...system — cosmical " sandheaps " — too remote to be separated into their component stars. Lord liosse himself was careful to point out that it would be...Herbert Spencer showed clearly that, notwithstanding the I'arsonstown revelations, the evidence from the observation of nebulae up to that time was really in... | |
 | 1927 - 466 pages
...had been careful to point out that it would be premature to conclude from his observations of nebulae that all nebulosity is but the glare of stars too remote to be resolved by our instruments. In 1858 the problem of the distribution of nebulae was discussed by no less a person than HERBERT SPENCER.... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1911 - 848 pages
...system — cosmical "sandheaps" — too remote to be separated into their component stars. Lord Hosse himself was careful to point out that it would be...revelations, the evidence from the observation of nebulse up to that time was really in favor of their being early stages of an evolutional progression.... | |
 | 1897 - 1044 pages
...gain ground that all nebulae may be capable of resolution into stars. According to this view, nebulas would have to be regarded, not as early stages of...observation of nebulae up to that time was really in favour of their being early stages of an evolutional progression. On the evening of the 29th of August,... | |
 | 1844 - 1156 pages
...further remarks, to conclude, that such will always be the case, and thence to draw the obvious inference that all nebulosity is but the glare of stars too remote to be separated by the utmost power of our instrumentst. June 20.—i. “ On the Structure of the Ultimate... | |
 | Michael J. Crowe - 1994 - 468 pages
...a case of 'Eyes and No Eyes.'" Such work indeed it was, as we shall see, on certain of the nebulae. The nature of these mysterious bodies was still an...observation of nebulae up to that time was really in favour of their being early stages of an evolutional progression. On the evening of August 29, 1864,... | |
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... sandheaps" too remote to be separated into their component stars. Lord Rosse himself was careful to point out that it would be unsafe from his observations to conclude that all nebulosity is but the glare of stars too remote to be resolved by our... 
