| sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - Liczba stron: 500
...of the subject. The part of the sun's disc not occupied by spots is far from uniformly bright. Its ground is finely mottled with an appearance of minute,...change. There is nothing which represents so faithfully tliis appearance as the slow subsidence of some flocculent chemical precipitates in a transparent fluid,... | |
| 1834 - Liczba stron: 596
...this opinion. ' The part of the sun's disc not occupied by spots is far from uniformly bright. Its ground is finely mottled with an appearance of minute...transparent fluid, when viewed perpendicularly from above j so faithfully, indeed, that it is hardly possible not to be impressed with the idea of a luminous... | |
| Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - 1838 - Liczba stron: 350
...minutes,} The part of the sun's disc not occupied by spots, is far from bemg uniformly bright. Its ground is finely mottled with an appearance of minute, dark dots, or fores, which, Illustrate these phenomenaby diagrams. "What conclusions have been_drawn lrom these phenomena... | |
| 1842 - Liczba stron: 1162
...not uniformly bright ' The ground is finely mottled,' to use the words of the observer just quoted, ' with an appearance of minute dark dots, or pores,...faithfully this appearance as the slow subsidence SUN 231 SUN of some flocculent chemical precipitates in a transparent fluid, when viewed perpendicularly... | |
| Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1842 - Liczba stron: 536
...mottled,' to use the word» of the observer just quoted, ' with an appearance of minute dark/ípU, от pores, which, when attentively watched, are found...faithfully this appearance as the slow subsidence SUN 281 SUN of some flocculent chemical precipitates in a transparent fluid, when viewed perpendicularly... | |
| 1842 - Liczba stron: 1046
...not uniformly bright ' The ground is finely mottled,' to use the words of the observer just quoted, ' with an appearance of minute dark dots, or pores,...attentively watched, are found to be in a constant stale of change. There is nothing which represents so faithfully this appearance as the slow subsidence... | |
| 1842 - Liczba stron: 538
...uniformly bright. ' The ground is finely mottled,' to use the words of the observer just quoted, ' with an appearance of minute dark dots, or pores, which, when attentively watched, are found tobe in a constant state of change. There is nothing which represents so faithfully this appearance... | |
| Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - 1843 - Liczba stron: 344
...minutes. The part of the sun's disc not occupied by spots, is far from being uniformly bright. Its ground is finely mottled with an Appearance of minute, dark dots, or pores, which, attentively watched, are found to be in a constant state of change. What the physical organization... | |
| Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - 1848 - Liczba stron: 302
...following : " That part of the sun's disc not occupied by spots, is far from being uniformly bright. Its ground is finely mottled with an appearance of minute...watched, are found to be in a constant state of change." This statement, until recently, was understood to mean, that the mottling of the sun was seen to change... | |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1855 - Liczba stron: 396
...surface is broken up into mountainous masses of light, of great height. Sir John Herschel says, that its ground is finely mottled with an appearance of minute...watched, are found to be in a constant state of change. What words could be better descriptive of the appearance the dark body of the sun would probably present... | |
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