 | Sir John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1833 - 444 pages
...— a red and a green day, for instance, alternating with a white one and with darkness, — might arise from the presence or absence of one or other,...unassociated with a companion brighter than itself. (611.) Another very interesting subject of enquiry, in the physical history of the stars, is their... | |
 | sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - 500 pages
...— a red and a green day, for instance, alternating with a white one and with darkness, — might arise from the presence or absence of one or other,...unassociated with a companion brighter than itself. (611.) Another very interesting subject of enquiry, in the physical history of the stars, is their... | |
 | John Farrar - Astronomy - 1834 - 504 pages
...the presence or absence of one or other or both, above the horizon. Insulated stars of a red color, almost as deep as that of blood, occur in many parts...unassociated with a companion brighter than itself. 578. Another very interesting subject of inquiry, in the physical history of the stars, is their proper... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1835 - 414 pages
...or both, above the horizon. Insulated stars of a red colour, almost as deep as that of blood, _occur in many parts of the heavens, but no green or blue'...unassociated with a companion brighter than itself. (611.) Another very interesting subject of inquiry, in the physical history of the stars, is their... | |
 | Child rearing - 1840 - 460 pages
...vicissitudes' — a red and a green day, for instance, alternating with a white one and with darkness — might arise from the presence or absence of one or other,...unassociated with a companion brighter than itself." The fact of coloured suns, of suns belonging to the same system diffusing light of opposite or contrasted... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - Astronomy - 1843 - 604 pages
...— a red and a green day, for instance, alternating with a white one and with darkness, — might arise from the presence or absence of one or other,...Prof. Struve has examined numerous sets of triple stars, — that is, of conjunctions of three bodies ; and he has ascertained that the number of these... | |
 | Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - Astronomy - 1843 - 344 pages
...both, above the horizon. Insulated stars of a red colour, almost as deep as that of blood, occur iu many parts of the heavens, but no green or blue star...unassociated with a companion brighter than itself. OLDSTERS. — When we cast our eyes over the concave surface of the heavens in a clear night, we do... | |
 | 1844 - 878 pages
...for instance, alternating with a white one, might arise from the presence or absence of one or other above the horizon. Insulated stars, of a red colour...unassociated with a companion brighter than itself.' But wonderful as we have seen binary systems to be, triple, quadruple, and multiple stars are now also... | |
 | Hiram Mattison - Astronomy - 1849 - 304 pages
...the presence or absence of one or other, or both, above the horizon. Insulated stars of a red color, almost as deep as that of blood, occur in many parts...unassociated with a companion brighter than itself."* Lesson 126. VARIABLE OR PERIODICAL STARS. 1. Variable stars are those which undergo a regular periodical... | |
 | Christianity - 1850 - 556 pages
...— a red and a green day, for instance, alternating with a white one and with darkness, — might arise from the presence or absence of one or other,...unassociated with a companion brighter than itself.' — Pp. 578 — 580. The motion of the general system of stars is another subject about which there... | |
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... a red and a green, or a yellow and a blue one — must afford a planet circulating about either; and what charming contrasts and "grateful vicissitudes," — a red and a green day, for instance, alternating with a white one and with darkness, —... 
