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" ... something of the motions of the stars relatively to our system. If the stars were moving towards or from the earth, their motion, compounded with the earth's motion, would alter to an observer on the earth the refrangibility of the light emitted by... "
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society - Page 278
by Royal Astronomical Society - 1885
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Spectrum Analysis: Six Lectures, Delivered in 1868, Before the Society of ...

Henry Enfield Roscoe - 1873 - 542 pages
...might also possibly serve to tell us something of the motions of the stars relatively to our system. If the stars were moving towards or from the earth,...vapours of the same substances existing in the stars. The apparatus employed by us was furnished with two prisms of dense flint glass, each with a refracting...
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Spectrum analysis, 6 lects

sir Henry Enfield Roscoe - 1873 - 550 pages
...system. If the stars were moving towards or from the earth, their motion, compounded with the earth-s motion, would alter to an observer on the earth the...vapours of the same substances existing in the stars. that the displacement of a line, or of a group of lines, to ail amount smaller even than the interval...
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Spectrum Analysis: Six Lectures, Delivered in 1868, Before the Society of ...

Henry Enfield Roscoe - 1873 - 552 pages
...might also possibly serve to tell us something of the motions of thn stars relatively to our system. If the stars were moving towards or from the earth,...motion, would alter to an observer on the earth the refraugibility of the light emitted by them, and consequently the lines of terrestrial substances would...
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 45

1885 - 600 pages
...the Earth and stars appeared in 1868, the subject had previously occupied the attention of bimself and Dr. Miller so early as 1862 ; for while engaged...vapours of the same substances existing in the stars." (Phil. Trans., 1868, p. 529.) Owing, however, to the insufficiency of the apparatus in these early...
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 45; Volumes 1884-1885

Royal Astronomical Society - 1833 - 572 pages
...subject had previously occupied the attention of himself and Dr. Miller so early as 1862 ; foiwhile engaged in that year on the comparison of the bright...with the Earth's motion, would alter to an observer ou the Earth the refrangibility of the light emitted by them, and consequently the lines of terrestrial...
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Journal, Volume 10

Royal Institution of Cornwall - 1891 - 582 pages
...spectrum of hydrogen, or of any other substance or gas. These observations have been made on the theory that " if the stars were moving towards or from the...the absorption of the vapours of the same substances in the stars."* that I shall be in order if I state, without occupying too much of your attention,...
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Volumes 21-22

Astronomical Society of the Pacific - 1909 - 614 pages
...might also possibly serve to tell us something of the motions of the stars relatively to our system. If the stars were moving towards or from the Earth,...by them, and consequently the lines of terrestrial substatices would no longer coincide in position in the spectrum with the dark lines produced by the...
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Volume 22

Astronomical Society of the Pacific - 1910 - 316 pages
...might also possibly serve to tell us something of the motions of the stars relatively to our system. If the stars were moving towards or from the Earth,...with the dark lines produced by the absorption of the vapors of the same substances existing in the stars." Repeated efforts to measure the velocities of...
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Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1911 - 846 pages
...us something of the motions of the stars relatively to our system. If the stars were moving toward or from the earth, their motion, compounded with the...with the dark lines produced by the absorption of the vapors of the same substances existing in the stars. Repeated efforts to measure the velocities of...
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The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science

1868 - 524 pages
...might also possibly serve to reveal something of the motions of the stars relatively to our system. If the stars were moving towards or from the earth,...vapours of the same substances existing in the stars. The method employed by them would certainly have revealed an alteration of refrangibility as great...
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