 This news was to me like the coming upon a spring of water in a dry and thirsty land. Here at last presented itself the very order of work for which in an indefinite way I was looking — namely, to extend his novel methods of research upon the sun to...  Popular Astronomy - Page 3931910Full view - About this book
 | J. B. Hearnshaw - 1990 - 554 pages
...true nature and chemical composition of the sun from his interpretation of the Fraunhofer lines. This news was to me like the coming upon a spring of water...presented itself the very order of work for which in an indefinite way I was looking - namely, to Fig. 4.11 Huggins' 8-inch Clark-Cooke refractor. extend... | |
 | Michael J. Crowe - 1986 - 708 pages
...demonstrated the potential in this new research technique, the availability of which gave Huggins a feeling "like the coming upon a spring of water in a dry and thirsty land." (p. 911) Collaborating for a time with the chemist William Allen Miller (1817-70), Huggins found that... | |
 | Norriss S. Hetherington - 1993 - 652 pages
...lines of research, Huggins responded to news of KirchhofPs work on the chemical constitution of the sun "like the coming upon a spring of water in a dry and thirsty land." By 1870 he had identified several elements in the spectra of stars and nebulae. Eventually speciroscopic... | |
 | Michael J. Crowe - 1994 - 468 pages
...constitution of the sun from his interpretation of the Fraunhofer lines. This news was to me like a coming upon a spring of water in a dry and thirsty...presented itself the very order of work for which in an indefinite way I was looking — namely, to extend his novel methods of research upon the sun to... | |
 | Anthony J. G. Hey, Patrick Walters - 1997 - 314 pages
...Huggins. He had described his feelings on hearing of Kirchhoff's discoveries about spectra as being 'like coming upon a spring of water in a dry and thirsty land'. In 1868, Huggins observed thatthe patterns of the spectral lines of light from the Dog Star, Sirius,... | |
 | Klaus Hentschel - 2002 - 596 pages
...made headlines in England. the thought occurred to him to apply it to the analysis of starlight: "this news was to me like the coming upon a spring of water...presented itself the very order of work for which in an indefinite way I was looking — namely to extend his novel methods of research upon the sun to... | |
 | Fred Watson - 2004 - 368 pages
...with his splendid new telescope, he heard of Kirchhoff's detailed analysis of the solar spectrum. This news was to me like the coming upon a spring of water in a dry and thirsty land [he wrote in 1897]. Here at last presented itself the very order of work for which in an indefinite... | |
 | Malcolm S. Longair - 2006 - 453 pages
...of 1861 to 1863 on the chemical composition of the solar atmosphere. In his words,2 This news came to me like the coming upon a spring of water in a...presented itself the very order of work for which in an indefinite way I was looking for - namely, to extend his novel methods of research upon the Sun... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1912 - 742 pages
...composition of the sun from the interpretation of the Fraunhofer lines. This news was to me like the coining upon a spring of water in a dry and thirsty land....presented itself the very order of work for which in an indefinite way I was longing — namely, to extend his novel methods of research upon the sun to... | |
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