 | John Frederick William Herschel - 1833 - 444 pagine
...illuminated, and the extremely small mass which there is ground to attribute to these bodies. It will then be evident that the most unsubstantial clouds which float...the filmy and all but spiritual texture of a comet. Accordingly, whenever powerful telescopes have been turned on these bodies, they have not failed to... | |
 | sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - 500 pagine
...illuminated, and the extremely small mass which there is ground to attribute to these bodies. It will then be evident that the most unsubstantial clouds which float...the filmy and all but spiritual texture of a comet. Accordingly, whenever powerful telescopes have been turned on these bodies, they have not failed to... | |
 | John Farrar - 1834 - 504 pagine
...illuminated, and the extremely small mass which there is ground to attribute to these bodies. It will then be evident that the most unsubstantial clouds which float...the filmy and all but spiritual texture of a comet. Accordingly, whenever powerful telescopes have been turned on these bodies, they have not failed to... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - 1835 - 414 pagine
...most unsubstantial clouds which float in the highest regions of our atmosphere, and seem at sunset te be drenched in light, and to glow throughout their...the filmy and all but spiritual texture of a comet. Accordingly, whenever powerful telescopes have been turned on these bodies, they have not failed to... | |
 | Thomas Lockerby - 1839 - 566 pagine
...unsubstantial clouds which float in the highest regions of our atmosphere, not above ten miles high, and seem at sunset to be drenched in light, and to...the filmy, and all but spiritual texture of a comet. Accordingly, whenever powerful telescopes have been turned on these bodies, they have not failed to... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - 1839 - 504 pagine
...than a cubic inch.f This is incredible, but still the highest clouds that float in our atmosphere, must be looked upon as dense and massive bodies, compared...the filmy and all but spiritual texture of a comet. J 394. The small quantity of matter in comets is proved by the fact that they have sometimes passed... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - 1839 - 300 pagine
...more than a cubic inch. This is incredible, but still the highest clouds that float in our atmosphere, must be looked upon as dense and massive bodies, compared...the filmy and all but spiritual texture of a comet. 285. The small quantity of matter in comets is proved by the fact, that they have sometimes passed... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1840 - 382 pagine
...Herschel says that ' the most unsubstantial clouds that float in the higher regions of our atmosphere, may be looked upon as dense and massive bodies, compared...the filmy and all but spiritual texture of a comet.' It is even probable that the substance is not to be conv pared for density, with the air we breathe;... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - 1841 - 486 pagine
...sky like a thin cloud. " The highest clouds that float in our atmosphere," says Sir John Herschel, " must be looked upon as dense and massive bodies, compared...the filmy and all but spiritual texture of a comet." The small quantity of matter in comets is proved by the fact, that they have at times passed very near... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1843 - 290 pagine
...That comets are not selfluminous, appears from the fact, that when they recede from us, they do n«t retain their brilliancy whilst their apparent size...between the head itself and the portion of the tail that comes up and surrounds it; an appearance analogous to that which we frequently witness in our own sky,... | |
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It will then be evident that the most unsubstantial clouds which float in the highest regions of our atmosphere, and seem at sunset to be drenched in light, and to glow throughout their whole depth as if in actual ignition, without any shadow or dark... 
