 | George Adams - Science - 1794 - 622 pages
...celeftial object. He now increafes his power of vifion, and applying himfelf to a clofer obfervation, finds that the milky way is indeed no other than a collection of very fmall ftars : he perceives that thofe objects, which had been called nebulse, are evidently nothing... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 378 pages
...heavens. Allowing him now the use of a common telescope, he begins to suspect that all the milkiness of the bright path, which surrounds the sphere, may be owing to stars : he perceives a few clusters of them in various parts of the heavens, and finds also that there is... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 376 pages
...heavens. Allowing him now the use of a common telescope, he begins to suspect that all the milkiness of the bright path, which surrounds the sphere, may be owing to stars : he perceives a few clusters of them in various parts of the heavens, and finds also that there is... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1809 - 722 pages
...attention. Л1luwing him the use of a common telescope, he begins to suspert that all the milk) ness of the bright path which surrounds the sphere may...stars, and the nebulae nothing but clusters of stars. Dr. Herschel then solves a general problem for computing the length of the visual . ray : tiiat of... | |
 | William Enfield - Astronomy - 1811 - 476 pages
...attention. Allowing him the use of a common telescope, he begins to suspect that all the milkiness of the bright path which surrounds the sphere may...stars, and the nebulae nothing but clusters of stars." Dr. Herschel then solves a general problem for computing the length of the visual ray : That of the... | |
 | 560 pages
...greatest attention. Allowing him the use of a common telescope he begins to suspect that all the milkiness of the bright path which surrounds the sphere, may be owing to stars. By increasing his powers of vision he becomes certain, that the milky way is indeed no other than a collection of very... | |
 | James Smith - Industrial arts - 1815 - 684 pages
...attention. Allowing him the use of a common telescope, he begins to suspect that all the milkiness of the bright path which surrounds the sphere may...increasing his power of vision, he becomes certain that the milky-way is, indeed, no other than a collection of very small stars, and the nebulae nothing but clusters... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1816 - 420 pages
...heavens. Allowing him, now, the use of a common telescope, he begins to suspect that all the milkiness of the bright path which surrounds the sphere may be owing to stars. He perceives a few clusters of them in various parts of the heavens, and finds also that these are... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 384 pages
...attention. Allowing him the use of a common telescope, he begins to suspect that all the milkiness of the bright path which surrounds the sphere may...is, indeed, no other than a collection of very small stars.'and the nebula: nothing but clusters of stars. Dr. Herschel then solves a general problem for... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 742 pages
...is from west to vision, he becomes certain that the milky way whence we conclude the motion of the is, indeed, no other than a collection o'f very small stars, and the nebula; nothing but clutters of stars. Dr. Herschel then solves a general problem for computing the... | |
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... to be the whole contents of the heavens. Allowing him now the use of a common telescope, he begins to suspect that all the milkiness of the bright path which surrounds the sphere may be owing to stars. He perceives a few clusters of them in various... 
