 | sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - 500 pages
...among the stars ; and, when examined through powerful telescopes, is found (wonderful to relate ! ) to consist entirely of stars scattered by millions,...dust, on the black ground of the general heavens. (254.) Another remarkable region in the heavens is the zodiac, not from any thing peculiar in its own... | |
 | Sir John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1833 - 444 pages
...among the stars ; and, when examined through powerful telescopes, is found (wonderful to relate ! ) to consist entirely of stars scattered by millions,...dust, on. the black ground of the general heavens. (254.) Another remarkable region in the heavens is the zodiac, not from any thing peculiar in its own... | |
 | Henry Duncan - Natural theology - 1836 - 430 pages
...stars, too minute to be detected by the naked eye, and too numerous to be accurately calculated, " scattered by millions, like glittering dust, on the black ground of the general heavens." Sir William Herschel informs us, that, on calculating a portion of the milky way, about ten degrees... | |
 | Frances Barbara Burton - 1837 - 202 pages
...(he adds further on), " when viewed " through powerful telescopes, is found (won" derfnl to relate), to consist entirely of stars, " scattered by millions, like glittering dust, on the " back-ground of the heavens." Three especial subjects of admiration present themselves in the regions... | |
 | T. H. Croft MOODY - 1838 - 344 pages
...a zone two degrees in breadth, during a single hour's observation." He found this remarkable belt " to consist entirely of stars scattered by millions,...dust, on the black ground of the general heavens. " Come forth, O man, yon azure round survey, And view those lamps, which yield eternal day. Bring foith... | |
 | T. H. Moody - Astrology - 1838 - 324 pages
...a zone two degrees in breadth, during a single hour's observation." He found this remarkable belt " to consist entirely of stars scattered by millions,...dust, on the black ground of the general heavens. " Come forth, O man, yon azure round survey, And view those lamps, which yield eternal day. Bring foith... | |
 | Thomas Lockerby - 1839 - 566 pages
...from horizon to horizon, when examined through powerful telescopes, is found (wonderful to relate) to consist entirely of stars, scattered by millions,...glittering dust on the black ground of the general heavens. When we speak of the comparative remoteness of certain regions of the starry heavens, beyond others,... | |
 | 1839 - 534 pages
...the stars; and when examined through powerful telescopes, is found (wonderful to relate I) to contist entirely of stars scattered by millions, like glittering dust on the black ground of the general heavens. 'If the comparison of the apparent magnitudes of the stars with their numbers leads to no general conclusion,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1839 - 1032 pages
...and when examined through powerful telescope*, is found (wonderful tu relate !) to consist entirety of stars scattered by millions, like glittering dust on the black ground of the general heavens. 'If the comparison of the apparent magnitudes of the stars with their numbers leads to no general conclusion,... | |
 | 1840 - 430 pages
...Herschel reveals to us—even that " Milky Way," which, when examined, " is found (wonderful to relate 1) to consist entirely of stars scattered by millions,...glittering dust, on the black ground of the general heavens''—may be but a small portion of the universe. No wonder that even a Newton is reported to... | |
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This remarkable belt has maintained, from the earliest ages, the same relative situation among the stars ; and, when examined through powerful telescopes, is found (wonderful to relate ! ) to consist entirely of stars scattered by millions, like glittering... 
