 | 1927 - 466 pages
...for quite a time. Huggins describes his dramatic discovery August 29th 1 864 in the following words : »I looked into the spectroscope. No spectrum such...only! At first I suspected some displacement of the prism . . . The light of the nebula was monochromatic and so, unlike any other light I had as yet subjected... | |
 | Hector Macpherson - 1926 - 220 pages
...extent the feeling of excited suspense, mingled with a degree of awe, with which, after a few moments of hesitation, I put my eye to the spectroscope. Was...spectrum such as I expected ! A single bright line only. . . . The riddle of the nebulae was solved. The answer which had come to us in the light itself read... | |
 | 1897 - 1044 pages
...extent the feeling of excited suspense, mingled with a degree of awe, with which, after a few moments of hesitation, I put my eye to the spectroscope. Was...only ! At first, I suspected some displacement of the prism, and that I was looking at a reflection of the illuminated slit from one of its faces. This thought... | |
 | David Malin, Paul Murdin - 1984 - 214 pages
...extent the feeling of excited suspense, mingled with a degree of awe, with which, after a few moments of hesitation, I put my eye to the spectroscope. Was...not about to look into a secret place of creation f I looked into the spectroscope. No spectrum such as I expected! A single bright line only! . . .... | |
 | Michael J. Crowe - 1994 - 468 pages
...extent the feeling of excited suspense, mingled with a degree of awe, with which, after a few moments of hesitation, I put my eye to the spectroscope. Was...only! At first I suspected some displacement of the prism, and that I was looking at a reflection of the illuminated slit from one of its faces. This thought... | |
 | John Daintith - 1994 - 530 pages
...that earlier astronomers had failed to resolve into stars. His excitement is apparent in his report: "I looked into the spectroscope. No spectrum such as I expected! A single bright line only! . . . The riddle of the nebula was solved . . . Not an aggregation of stars, but a luminous gas." He... | |
 | Edward Harrison - 2000 - 586 pages
...wrote, "I directed the telescope for the first time to a planetary nebula in Draco," and with hesitation "put my eye to the spectroscope. Was I not about to look into a secret place of creation?" What he saw was not what he expected. The spectroscope showed not the continuous spectrum characteristic... | |
 | Henry C. King - 2003 - 484 pages
...August a9th [he writes]3a I directed the telescope for the first time to a planetary nebula in Draco. I looked into the spectroscope. No spectrum such as...only! At first I suspected some displacement of the a86 prism, and that I was looking at a reflection of the illuminated slit from one of its faces. This... | |
 | Fred Watson - 2004 - 368 pages
...August 29th [he wrote in 1897] I directed the telescope for the first time to a planetary nebula ... I looked into the spectroscope. No spectrum such as...only! At first I suspected some displacement of the prism, and that I was looking at a reflection of the illuminated slit from one of its faces. This thought... | |
 | Mark Pendergrast - 2009 - 448 pages
...spectra. On the evening of August 29, 1864, he turned his telescope to the Cat's Eye Nebula in Draco. "I looked into the spectroscope. No spectrum such as I expected! A single bright line only!" Although he soon found a few other bright lines, it was clear to Huggins that he was looking at a luminous... | |
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I looked into the spectroscope. No spectrum such as I expected ! A single bright line only ! At first I suspected some displacement of the prism, and that I was looking at a reflection of the illuminated slit from one of its faces. This thought was scarcely... 
