 ... when the novelty of the subject is considered, we cannot be surprised that many things, formerly taken for granted, should on examination prove to be different from what they were generally but incautiously supposed to be. For instance, an equal scattering...  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society - Page 508by Royal Astronomical Society - 1873Full view - About this book
 | Agnes Mary Clerke - 1895 - 242 pages
...my sweeps of the heavens my opinion of the arrangement of the stars has undergone a gradual change. An equal scattering of the stars may be admitted in...calculations; but when we examine the Milky Way, or closely compressed clusters, it must be given up." And in 1817 : " Gauges, which on a supposition of... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1897 - 366 pages
...stars very differently scattered from those which are immediately about us.' And again in 1811 he said, 'When the novelty of the subject is considered, we cannot be surprised that manv things formerly taken for granted should, on examination, prove to be different from what they... | |
 | Agnes Mary Clerke - 1902 - 534 pages
...stars and their magnitudes, and of some other particulars, has undergone a gradual change ; and indeed, when the novelty of the subject is •considered,...cannot be surprised that many things formerly taken 1 Phil. Trans., vol. Ixxv., p. 255. • Ibid., vol. Ixxix., pp. 214, 222. for granted should on examination... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1873 - 488 pages
...and their magnitudes, and of some other particulars, has undergone a gradual change ; and, indeed, when the novelty of the subject is considered, we...way, or the closely compressed clusters of stars, this supposed equality of scattering must be given up. We may also have surmised nebula; to be no other... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1873 - 490 pages
...and their magnitudes, and of some other particulars, has undergone a gradual change ; and, indeed, when the novelty of the subject is considered, we...be. For instance, an equal scattering of the stars maybe admitted in certain calculations; but when we examine the milky way, or the closely compressed... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1871 - 828 pages
...and their magnitudes, and of some other particulars, has undergone a gradual change ; and, indeed, when the novelty of the subject is considered, we...calculations ; but when we examine the Milky Way, or the closelycompressed clusters of stars, this supposed equality of scattering must be given up. We may... | |
 | William Wallace Payne, Herbert C. Wilson, Curvin Henry Gingrich - 1906 - 696 pages
...some other particulars, have undergone a gradual change; and, indeed, when the novelty of the thing is considered we cannot be surprised that many things...supposed to be. For instance, an equal scattering Hector Macpherson, Jumor. 387 of the stars may be admitted in certain calculations; but when we examine... | |
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