| Michael J. Crowe - Science - 1994 - 468 pages
...but if I should deviate from that, I could wish not to fall into the latter error. That the milky way is a most extensive stratum of stars of various sizes admits no longer of the least doubt; and that our sun is actually one of the heavenly bodies belonging to it is as evident. I have now viewed... | |
| Raphael - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1996 - 264 pages
...could not for want of light be scarcely perceived. Dr. Herschel also remarks, " that the milky way, is a most extensive stratum of stars, of various sizes, admits no longer of real doubt ; and that our sun is one of the heavenly bodies belonging to it, is as evident. l have... | |
| Raphael - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1996 - 264 pages
...could not for want of light be scarcely perceived. Dr. Herschel also remarks, " that the milky way, is a most extensive stratum of stars, of various sizes, admits no longer of real doubt; and that our sun is one of the heavenly bodies belonging to it, is as evident. I have now... | |
| Pamela Gossin - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 332 pages
...structures, with apparently empty space in between them [FIG. 3.1]. In his own words: "That the Milky Way is a most extensive stratum of stars of various sizes admits no longer of the least doubt; and that our sun is actually one of the heavenly bodies belonging to it is as evident" and "the stupendous... | |
| Constance Ann Lubbock - Astronomy - 1933 - 424 pages
...paper " On the Construction of the Heavens" will show how he developed these ideas: "That the Milky Way is a most extensive stratum of stars of various sizes admits no longer of the least doubt; and that our sun is actually one of the heavenly bodies belonging to it is as evident. I have now viewed... | |
| Astronomy - 1922 - 458 pages
...Herschel was able, in his second paper (1785 Jan. t), to express himself thus: — "That the Milky Way is a most extensive stratum of stars of various sizes admits no longer of the least doubt, and that our Sun is actually one of the heavenly bodies belonging to it is evident. I have now viewed... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1871 - 828 pages
...increases and decreases in proportion to its apparent brightness to the naked eye. That this shining zone is a most extensive stratum of stars of various sizes admits no longer of the least doubt, and that our sun is actually one of the heavenly bodies belonging to it is as evident." When to this.... | |
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