 | sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - Liczba stron: 500
...remarkable belt has maintained, from the earliest ages, the same relative situation among the stars ; and, when examined through powerful telescopes, is found...millions, like glittering dust, on the black ground of the general heavens. (254.) Another remarkable region in the heavens is the zodiac, not from any thing... | |
 | Sir John Frederick William Herschel - 1833 - Liczba stron: 444
...remarkable belt has maintained, from the earliest ages, the same relative situation among the stars ; and, when examined through powerful telescopes, is found...like glittering dust, on. the black ground of the general heavens. (254.) Another remarkable region in the heavens is the zodiac, not from any thing... | |
 | Henry Duncan - 1836 - Liczba stron: 430
...stars, too minute to be detected by the naked eye, and too numerous to be accurately calculated, " scattered by millions, like glittering dust, on the black ground of the general heavens." Sir William Herschel informs us, that, on calculating a portion of the milky way,... | |
 | Frances Barbara Burton - 1837 - Liczba stron: 202
...portion," (he adds further on), " when viewed " through powerful telescopes, is found (won" derfnl to relate), to consist entirely of stars, " scattered by millions, like glittering dust, on the " back-ground of the heavens." Three especial subjects of admiration present themselves in the regions... | |
 | T. H. Moody - 1838 - Liczba stron: 324
...a zone two degrees in breadth, during a single hour's observation." He found this remarkable belt " to consist entirely of stars scattered by millions, like glittering dust, on the black ground of the general heavens. " Come forth, O man, yon azure round survey, And view those lamps, which yield eternal... | |
 | T. H. Croft MOODY - 1838 - Liczba stron: 344
...a zone two degrees in breadth, during a single hour's observation." He found this remarkable belt " to consist entirely of stars scattered by millions, like glittering dust, on the black ground of the general heavens. " Come forth, O man, yon azure round survey, And view those lamps, which yield eternal... | |
 | Frances Barbara Burton - 1838 - Liczba stron: 146
...single hour." Speaking of a still remoter portion of these regions, he adds, " This portion when viewed through powerful telescopes, is " found (wonderful to relate), to consist entirely of star*, " scattered by millions, like glittering dust, on the back* " ground of the heavens." Three... | |
 | Thomas Lockerby - 1839 - Liczba stron: 566
...that great luminous band, which stretches every evening all across the sky from horizon to horizon, when examined through powerful telescopes, is found...millions, like glittering dust on the black ground of the general heavens. When we speak of the comparative remoteness of certain regions of the starry heavens,... | |
 | 1839 - Liczba stron: 534
...the stars; and when examined through powerful telescopes, is found (wonderful to relate I) to contist entirely of stars scattered by millions, like glittering dust on the black ground of the general heavens. 'If the comparison of the apparent magnitudes of the stars with their numbers leads... | |
 | 1839 - Liczba stron: 1032
...and when examined through powerful telescope*, is found (wonderful tu relate !) to consist entirety of stars scattered by millions, like glittering dust on the black ground of the general heavens. 'If the comparison of the apparent magnitudes of the stars with their numbers leads... | |
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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... 
