| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 462 pages
...and fixed stars great earths vehemently hot, whose heat is conserved by the greatness of the bodici, and the mutual action and reaction between them, and...are kept from fuming away, not only by their fixity, bnt also by the vast weight and density of the atmospheres incumbent upon them ? Newton'i Optictu.... | |
| John Gibson MacVicar - 1830 - 674 pages
...sun and the fixed stars great earths, vehemently hot, whose heat is conserved by the greatness of the bodies, and the mutual action and reaction between...vast weight and density of the atmospheres Incumbent upon them, and very strongly compressing them, and condensing the vapours and exhalations which arise... | |
| David Brewster - 1855 - 592 pages
...action and reaction between them and the light which they emit, and whose parts are kept from burning away, not only by their fixity, but also by the vast weight and density of the atmospheres incumbent upon them, and very strongly compressing them, and condensing the vapours and exhalations which arise... | |
| David Brewster - Physicists - 1855 - 594 pages
...great earths vehemently hot, whose heat is conceived by the greatness of the bodies and the material action and reaction between them and the light which they emit, and whose parts are kept from burning away, not only by their fixity, but also by the vast weight and density of the atmospheres... | |
| 1862 - 658 pages
...the natural action and reaction between the light they emit, and whose substance is kept from burning away, not only by their fixity, but also by the vast weight and density of the atmosphere incumbent npon them, and very strongly compressing them, and condensing the vapours and... | |
| James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - Science - 1862 - 620 pages
...the Sun and fixed stars great earths, vehemently hot, whose heat is conserved by the greatness of the bodies, and the mutual action and reaction between them and the light which they emit?" — (Newton's Optics.) Since Newton's days, this hypothesis for a considerable period was discarded,... | |
| Samuel Haughton - Geology - 1865 - 448 pages
...the sun and fixed stars great earths vehemently hot, whose heat is conserved by the greatness of the bodies, and the mutual action and reaction between...vast weight and density of the atmospheres incumbent upon them ; and very strongly compressing them, and condensing the vapours and exhalations which arise... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - Natural history - 1874 - 718 pages
...the sun and fix'd stars, great earths vehemently hot, whose heat is conserved by the greatness of the bodies, and the mutual action and reaction between...vast weight and density of the atmospheres incumbent upon them, and very strongly compressing them, and condensing the vapours and exhalations which arise... | |
| Brighton and Hove Natural History and Philosophical Society, Brighton - Science - 1874 - 800 pages
...the sun and fixed stars great earths vehemently hot, whose heat is conserved Ly the greatness of the bodies, and the mutual action and reaction between...vast weight and density of the atmospheres incumbent upon them, and very strongly compressing them and condensing the vapours and exhalations which arise... | |
| James Samuelson, Sir William Crookes - Science - 1880 - 822 pages
...Newton and Galileo. Newton asked, "Are not the sun and the fixed stars great earths vehemently hot . . . whose parts are kept from fuming away, not only by...vast weight and density of the atmospheres incumbent upon them ?" — and Galileo had even gone further, and declared sun spots to be clouds in the sun's... | |
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