| Sir John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1833 - 444 pages
...as the twilight. Were it not for the reflective and scattering power of the atmosphere, no objects would be visible to us out of direct sunshine; every...admission, would be involved in nocturnal obscurity. This scattering action of the atmosphere on the solar light, it should be observed, is greatly increased... | |
| sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - 500 pages
...ay the twilight. Were it not for the reflective and scattering power of the atmosphere, no objects would be visible to us out of direct sunshine ; every...admission, would be involved in nocturnal obscurity. This scattering action of the atmosphere on the solar light, it should be observed, is greatly increased... | |
| 1833 - 468 pages
...OF AIR ON LIGHT. WERE it not for the reflective and scattering power of the atmosphere, no objects would be visible to us out of direct sunshine; every...the sun had not direct admission, would be involved inr nocturnal obscurity. This scattering action of the atmosphere on the solar light, it should be... | |
| William Prout - Chemistry - 1834 - 618 pages
...not," says Sir J. Herschel, " for the reflecting and scattering power of the atmosphere, no objects would be visible to us out of direct sunshine, every...shadow of a passing cloud would be pitchy darkness; the stare would be visible all day, and every apartment into which the sun had not direct admission would... | |
| Natural theology - 1836 - 300 pages
...not," says Sir J. Herschel, " for the reflecting and scattering power of the atmosphere, no objects would be visible to us out of direct sunshine, every...admission would be involved in nocturnal obscurity." Again to use the words of the same author, in speaking of twilight, — " After the sun and moon are... | |
| Thomas Chalmers - Human beings - 1836 - 572 pages
...not," says Sir J. Herschel, " for the reflecting and scattering power of the atmosphere, no objects would be visible to us out of direct sunshine, every...admission would be involved in' nocturnal obscurity." Again to use the words of the same author, in speaking of twilight, — " After the sun and moon are... | |
| Denison Olmsted - Astronomy - 1839 - 300 pages
...the atmosphere has of dispersing the solar light, and scattering it in various directions, no objects would be visible to us out of direct sunshine ; every...sun had not direct admission, would be involved in the obscurity of night. This scattering action of the atmosphere on the solar light, is greatly increased... | |
| Denison Olmsted - Astronomy - 1839 - 308 pages
...the atmosphere has of dispersing the solar light, and scattering it in various directions, no objects would be visible to us out of direct sunshine ; every...sun had not direct admission, would be involved in the obscurity of night. This scattering action of the atmosphere on the solar light, is greatly increased... | |
| George Crabbe - Natural theology - 1840 - 508 pages
...it not (says Sir J. Herschel) for the reflecting and scattering power of the atmosphere, no objects would be visible to us out of direct sunshine ; every...would be visible all day, and every apartment into \vhich the sun had not direct admission, would be involved in nocturnal obscurity. " — Treatise on... | |
| 1840 - 430 pages
...twilight. Were it not for the reflective and scattering power of the atmosphere, no objects would bo visible to us out of direct sunshine; every shadow of a passing cloud would be pitchy darkness; (he stars would tx vitiblt ail day t and every apartment, into which the sun had not direct admission,... | |
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