 | Royal Astronomical Society - 1885 - 572 pages
...motion, compounded with the Earth's motion, would alter to an observer on the Earth the refrangibility of the light emitted by them, and consequently the...the absorption of the vapours of the same substances existing in the stars." (PJiil. Trans., 1868, p. 529.) Owing, however, to the insufficiency of the... | |
 | 1885 - 600 pages
...motion, compounded with the Earth's motion, would alter to an observer on the Earth the refrangibility of the light emitted by them, and consequently the...the absorption of the vapours of the same substances existing in the stars." (Phil. Trans., 1868, p. 529.) Owing, however, to the insufficiency of the apparatus... | |
 | Royal Astronomical Society - 1833 - 572 pages
...motion, compounded with the Earth's motion, would alter to an observer ou the Earth the refrangibility of the light emitted by them, and consequently the...the absorption of the vapours of the same substances existing in the stars." (Phil. Trans., 1868, p. 529.) Owing, however, to the insufficiency of the apparatus... | |
 | Royal Institution of Cornwall - 1891 - 580 pages
...motion compounded with the earth's motion, would alter to an observer on the earth the refrangibility of the light emitted by them, and consequently the...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, that successful... | |
 | Astronomical Society of the Pacific - 1909 - 614 pages
...motion, compounded with the Earth's motion, would alter to an observer on the Earth the refrangibility of the light emitted 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... | |
 | Astronomical Society of the Pacific - 1910 - 316 pages
...motion, compounded with the Earth's motion, would alter to an observer on the Earth the refrangibility of the light emitted by them, and consequently 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... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1911 - 846 pages
...motion, compounded with the earth's motion, would alter to an observer on the earth the refrangibility of the light emitted by them, and consequently 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... | |
 | 1868 - 524 pages
...motion, compounded with the earth's motion, would alter to an observer on the earth the refrangibility of the light emitted by them, and consequently the...the absorption of the vapours of the same substances existing in the stars. The method employed by them would certainly have revealed an alteration of refrangibility... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1911 - 854 pages
...motion, compounded with the earth's motion, would alter to an observer on the earth the refrangibility of the light emitted by them, and consequently 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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... 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... 
