 | George Payn Quackenbos - Physics - 1860 - 468 pages
...sphere and maintaining the same position relatively to the stars. Examined through a powerful telescope, it is found to consist entirely of stars, scattered...millions, like glittering dust, on the black ground of the heavens. 1014. NEBULAE.—Nebulse are clusters of stars so distant that they look like faint patches... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - Physics - 1860 - 484 pages
...sphere and maintaining the same position relatively to the stars. Examined through a powerful telescope, it is found to consist entirely of stars, scattered...millions, like glittering dust, on the black ground of the heavens. 1014. NEBULJE. — Nebulse are clusters of stars so distant that they look like faint patches... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1860 - 808 pages
...This remarkable belt," he says, "examined through a powerful telescope, is found (wonderful to relate) to consist entirely of stars scattered by millions,...dust, on the black ground of the general heavens." Again, he conjectures from his ingenions combinations of photometric calculations, that if the stars... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - Physics - 1862 - 468 pages
...sphere and maintaining the Same position relatively to the stars. Examined through a powerful telescope, it is found to consist entirely of stars, scattered...millions, like glittering dust, on the black ground of the heavens. 1014. NEBULA.—Nebulae arc clusters of stars so distant that they look like faint patches... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - Physics - 1866 - 468 pages
...relatively to the stars. Examined through a powerful telescope, it is found to consist entirely «f stars, scattered by millions, like glittering dust, on the black ground of the heavens. 1014. NEBULAS. — Nebufee are dusters of stars so distant that they look like faint patches... | |
 | World - 1868 - 528 pages
...earliest ages the same relative position among the stars, and when examined through powerful telescopes is found to consist entirely of stars scattered by millions like glittering dust on the background of the heavens. When Herschel directed his telescope upon the Milky Way he found what had... | |
 | Mary Ward (Hon.) - 1869 - 220 pages
...remember what has been revealed about it by a powerful telescope, namely this, " that it consists " entirely of stars scattered by millions, like glittering...dust, on the black ground of the general heavens."* Stars — each, perhaps, a Sun! Far, far away from this earth and its troubles is the mind carried... | |
 | P. Austin Nuttall - Science - 1869 - 356 pages
...the earliest ages, the same relative position among the stars ; and when examined through telescopes, is found to consist entirely of stars, scattered by millions, like glittering dust on the face of the general heavens. •ul (Sax.), an engine or machine for grinding grain, fruit, or other... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt - Philosophy - 1870 - 446 pages
...examined through powerful telescopes) is found (wonderful to relate!) to consist entirely of slars scattered by millions , like glittering dust, on the black ground of the general heavens." (Outlines p. 182, 537 unb 539.) 85 (g. 119.) „Globular clusters, except in one region of small extent... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - Physics - 1871 - 478 pages
...same position relatively to the stars. Examined through a powerful telescope, it is found to consist of stars, scattered by millions, like glittering dust, on the black ground of the heavens. 1014. NEBULAE. — Nebulse are faint cloud-like patches of light, visible some to the naked... | |
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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... 
