... whose mottled and curdling light evidently indicates by a sort of granular texture its consisting of stars, and when examined under the great light of Lord Rosse's... Spectrum analysis, 6 lects - Page 248by sir Henry Enfield Roscoe - 1869Full view - About this book
| 1871 - 346 pages
...Herschel, referring to the nebula in Orion, says that " when examined under the great light of Lord Eosse's reflector, or the exquisite defining power of the great achromatic at Cambridge, US, it is evidently proved to consist of stars." Such is his opinion of the performance of a 14-inch achromatic... | |
| Henry Enfield Roscoe - 1873 - 552 pages
...square front of the head is shown with the eighteeu-inch reflector broken up into masses, FIG. 8G. whose mottled and curdling light evidently indicates, by...stars, and when examined under the great light of Lord Eosse's reflector, or the exquisite defining power of the great achromatic at Cambridge, US, is evidently... | |
| Alexander von Humboldt - 1874 - 440 pages
...forming the square front of the head, is shown with the 18-inch reflector broken up into masses, whose mottled and curdling light evidently indicates by...defining power of the great achromatic at Cambridge, XT. S., is evidently perceived to consist of clustering stars. There can therefore be little doubt... | |
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