 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1881 - 798 pages
...independently of stars. The light of this fluid is no kind of reflection from the star in the center. If this matter is self-luminous, it seems more fit to...condensation than to depend on the star for its existence. 86 List of diffused nebulosities and planetary nebnlie ; both better accounted for by the hypothesis... | |
 | 1897 - 1074 pages
...accountingmuch better for it than clustering stare at a distance. . . . If this matter is self luminous, it seems more fit to produce a star by its condensation, than to depend on the star for its existence. This view of the nebulae as parts of a fiery mist out of which the heavens had been slowly fashioned,... | |
 | 576 pages
...nebulous star is one " which is involved in a shining fluid of a nature totally unknown to us," and "which seems more fit to produce a star by its condensation than to depend on the star for its existence." Again, in his paper on the Construction of the Heavens, in the Philosophical Transactions for 1811,... | |
 | 1878 - 944 pages
...fluid is no kind of reflection from the star in the centre. If this matter is self-luminous, it teems more fit to produce a star by its condensation than to depend on the star for its existence. 86 List of diffused nebulosities and planetary nebulae ; both better accounted for by the hypothesis... | |
 | 1911 - 466 pages
...successive papers of Herschel. He early registered his view that the self-luminous matter of the nebulae was "more fit to produce a star by its condensation than to depend on the star for its existence." He arranged in an orderly series the different objects he had discovered and found "perhaps not so... | |
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If this matter is self-luminous, it seems more fit to produce a star by its condensation than to depend on the star for its existence. 
