... 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, —... Mechanical Philosophy, Horology and Astronomy - Page 429by William Benjamin Carpenter - 1843 - 7 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1872 - 740 pages
...is often of a deep blue, green, or purple color. It has been well remarked by Sir John Herschel, " What charming contrasts and grateful vicissitudes...green day, for instance, alternating with a white day " (when both stars are together above the horizon), " and with darkness" (when both stars arc below... | |
| Hiram Mattison - 1872 - 264 pages
...in words than conceived in 4?.'2. Why culled "fixed stars," if in motion? Imagination what variety of illumination two suns — a red and a green, or a yellow rmt a blue one — mnst attbrd a planet circulating about either, and what charming rontra^u und "grateful... | |
| Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - Astronomy - 1874 - 362 pages
...and a small one of a rich ruddy purple. 249. It is not easy to conceive what variety of illuminatiou two suns — a red and a green, or a yellow and a blue one — must afford to a planet revolving about either ; and what charmm;; contrasts and grateful vicissitudes — a red and a green... | |
| Thomas Milner - 1873 - 336 pages
...green „ „ It is quite impossible to conceive, as Sir John Herschel has remarked, " what variety of illumination two suns, 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... | |
| Francis Bullock - Astronomy - 1873 - 240 pages
...easier suggested in words than conceived in imagination," observes Sir J. Herschel, " what variety of illumination Two Suns — 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... | |
| Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - Constellations - 1873 - 358 pages
...r.ch ruddy purple. 249. It is not easy to conceive what variety of illumination two suns — a red aud a green, or a yellow and a blue one — must afford to a planet revolving about either ; and what charming contrasts aud grateful vicissitudes — a red and a green... | |
| Robert Patterson - Apologetics - 1875 - 554 pages
...says Sir John Herschel, " than conceived in imagination, what a variety of illumination two stars — a red and a green, or a yellow and a blue one — must afford a planet circulating around either, and what cheering contrasts and grateful vicissitudes a red and... | |
| Edwin Dunkin - 1879 - 610 pages
...effect of contrast, and it may be easier suggested in words than conceived in imagination, what variety of illumination two suns — 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... | |
| Gaston Tissandier - 1882 - 830 pages
...Herschel — " It may be more easily suggested in words than conceived in imagination what variety of illumination two suns, a red and a green, or a yellow and blue one, must afford to a planet circulating round either — or what charming contrasts and graceful... | |
| Jermain Gildersleeve Porter - Cosmology - 1888 - 128 pages
...and yellow. " Indeed, it may be easier suggested in words than conceived in imagination, what variety of illumination two suns, a red and a green, or a yellow and a blue one, must afford a planet circling about either ; and what charming contrasts and grateful vicissitudes a red and a... | |
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