The Orbs Around Us: A Series of Familiar Essays on the Moon and Planets, Meteors and Comets, the Sun and Coloured Pairs of SunsLongmans, Green, and Company, 1881 - 337 páginas |
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... Telescope to determine the heat of the lunar surface . Then follow papers on Venus , Mars , and Jupiter ; two essays on Meteors , one relating to the past history and the other to the present condition of meteoric researches ; a paper ...
... Telescope to determine the heat of the lunar surface . Then follow papers on Venus , Mars , and Jupiter ; two essays on Meteors , one relating to the past history and the other to the present condition of meteoric researches ; a paper ...
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... TELESCOPE SET TO NEW WORK 64 THE PLANET OF LOVE 80 THE PLANET OF WAR 104 A MINIATURE SUN 123 SHOOTING STARS , METEORS , AND AËROLITES 145 METEORS AND METEOR SYSTEMS . 172 PROFESSOR TYNDALL'S THEORY OF COMETS 197 COMETS AND COMETS ...
... TELESCOPE SET TO NEW WORK 64 THE PLANET OF LOVE 80 THE PLANET OF WAR 104 A MINIATURE SUN 123 SHOOTING STARS , METEORS , AND AËROLITES 145 METEORS AND METEOR SYSTEMS . 172 PROFESSOR TYNDALL'S THEORY OF COMETS 197 COMETS AND COMETS ...
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... telescope ) some molecules or atoms are vibrating at a particular rate , so as to send out , or to absorb , light of a certain colour . Even the work of the telescope in aiding the source . spectroscope has its analogue in the theory of ...
... telescope ) some molecules or atoms are vibrating at a particular rate , so as to send out , or to absorb , light of a certain colour . Even the work of the telescope in aiding the source . spectroscope has its analogue in the theory of ...
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... telescope , though it causes sounds to be per- ceived at a distance . Nor can we regard the pheno- mena of whispering - galleries as in any sense illustrat- ing the work of the telescope . But an ear - trumpet is a true analogue of the ...
... telescope , though it causes sounds to be per- ceived at a distance . Nor can we regard the pheno- mena of whispering - galleries as in any sense illustrat- ing the work of the telescope . But an ear - trumpet is a true analogue of the ...
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... telescope ; but whether those limits have been already nearly reached , or will only be reached after a long interval of years , is not so easy to determine . Taking for our guidance the telescope , we should have to regard the present ...
... telescope ; but whether those limits have been already nearly reached , or will only be reached after a long interval of years , is not so easy to determine . Taking for our guidance the telescope , we should have to regard the present ...
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Admiral Smyth aërolites Aldebaran analysis appear astronomers belts bodies bright lines celestial circumstances cloud colour comet constitution corona corresponding dark lines Dawes disc distance double stars doubt earth earth's atmosphere eclipse enormous envelope eruption evidence exist fact favour Fraser's Magazine Fraunhofer lines gamut globe heat heat-rays height Huggins hydrogen inhabitants Jacob Island Jupiter less light lunar Mars masses matter meteor systems meteorites miles per second millions of miles moon moon's motion observed Ocean orbit pass peculiarity phenomena photosphere planet planetary portion present Professor Tyndall prominences question radiations rays recognised reflector regarded regions remarkable researches resembling respecting Saturn Secchi seems seen shining shooting-stars sidereal solar appendage solar atmosphere solar spectrum solar system sound space spectra spectroscope spots STAR ATLAS sun's supposed surface tail telescope terrestrial theory tion Uranus vapour velocity Venus visible worlds zodiacal light zone
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Página 337 - The Orbs Around Us; a Series of Familiar Essays on the Moon and Planets, Meteors and Comets, the Sun and Coloured Pairs of Suns.
Página 316 - First the flaming Red Sprung vivid forth ; the tawny Orange next ; And next delicious Yellow ; by whose side Fell the kind beams of all-refreshing Green ; Then the pure Blue, that swells autumnal skies Ethereal...
Página 287 - The inference is that the meteorite had been extruded from a dense atmosphere of hydrogen gas, for which we must look beyond the light cometary matter floating about within the limits of our solar system.
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Página 26 - It would require no inordinate thickening of the layer of vapor to double this absorption ; and it is perfectly evident that, with a protecting envelope of this kind, permitting the heat to enter but preventing its escape, a comfortable temperature might be obtained on the surface of our most distant planet.
Página 148 - Moharrem, (1202 of our era, and on the igth of October,) the stars appeared like waves upon the sky, towards the east and west ; they flew about like grasshoppers, and were dispersed from left to right; this lasted till daybreak; the people were alarmed.