 | George Ellery Hale - 1915 - 116 pages
...Newton who first pointed out the importance of making astronomical observations from a mountain top: "For the Air through which we look upon the Stars,...of the highest Mountains above the grosser Clouds." (Opticks, third edition, p. 98.) But height is not the only essential; indeed, very great altitudes... | |
 | Astronomical Society of the Pacific - 1915 - 294 pages
...imperfections in the atmosphere thru which the observer looks. NEWTON commented that the only remedy is "a serene and quiet air, such as may perhaps be found...of the highest mountains above the grosser clouds." I have for many years ardently admired NEWTON'S use of the word "perhaps" in this connection. Notwithstanding... | |
 | David Peck Todd - 1922 - 420 pages
...surrounds our planet. This is the way Newton puts the question in his treatise on Opticks — he says : "The Air through which we look upon the Stars, is...of the highest Mountains above the grosser Clouds." Newton's suggestion is that the highest mountains may afford the best conditions for tranquillity ;... | |
 | 1928 - 818 pages
...telescope. Under such conditions a great telescope may be useless. This is why Newton wrote in his Opticks: If the Theory of making Telescopes could at length...of the highest Mountains above the grosser Clouds. Even at the best of sites, in a climate marked by long periods of great tranquillity, unbroken by storms,... | |
 | History of Science Society - 1928 - 394 pages
...Stars. But these Stars do not twinkle when viewed through Telescopes which have large apertures. . . .The only remedy is a most serene and quiet Air, such...of the highest Mountains above the grosser Clouds." (p. 98.) It is interesting to note that some of the most important observatories are now located on... | |
 | 1884 - 646 pages
...seen by the tremulous motion of shadows cast from high ' towers, and by the twinkling of the fixed stars. The only remedy ' is a most serene and quiet...of the highest mountains above the grosser clouds.' ART. 111. — 1. Quickborn : Folksleben in plattdeutschen Gedichten ditmarscher Mundart. Von KLAUS... | |
 | Michael C. Roggemann, Byron M. Welsh, Bobby R. Hunt - 1996 - 336 pages
...mitigate the effects of atmospheric turbulence remains the standard wisdom for choosing observatory sites: "The only Remedy is a most serene and quiet Air, such...of the highest Mountains above the grosser Clouds. " Understanding the origin of the optical effects of atmospheric turbulence did little to improve the... | |
 | John W. Hardy - 1998 - 452 pages
...formed as to take avvay that confusion of the Rays which arises from the Tremors of the Atmosphere. The only Remedy is a most serene and quiet Air. such...of the highest Mountains above the grosser Clouds. The possibility of compensating atmospheric turbulence was not even dreamed of in Newton's time. At... | |
 | Robert K. Tyson - 2000 - 136 pages
...is in perpetual Tremor ... But, these Stars do not twinkle when viewed through ... large apertures. The only Remedy is a most serene and quiet Air, such as may perhaps he found on the tops of the highest Mountains above the grosser Clouds." In this basic and extremely... | |
 | Henry C. King - 2003 - 484 pages
...1919. Struve, Ref. 39, p. a37. Spencer Jones, H., MNRAS, 104, p. 95, 1944Ibid., p. 94. CHAPTER XVI The only remedy is a most serene and quiet Air, such as may be found on the tops of the highest Mountains above the grosser Clouds. ISAAC NEWT0N EARLY in the present... | |
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If the Theory of making Telescopes could at length be fully brought into practice, yet there would be certain Bounds beyond which Telescopes could not perform. For the Air through which we look upon the Stars, is in a perpetual Tremor; as may be seen... 
