| Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - 1856 - Liczba stron: 362
...886. The part of the Sun's disc not occupied hy spots, is far from heing uniformly hright. Its greand is finely mottled with an appearance of minute dark dots, or pores, which, attentively watched for several days in snccession, are fonnd to he in a constant state of change.... | |
| John Frederick William Herschel - 1857 - Liczba stron: 586
...1758. " Ingens macula in sole conspiciebatur, cujus diam eter= o'u diam. soils. uniformly bright. Its ground is finely mottled with an appearance of minute,...faithfully this appearance as the slow subsidence of some flocculcnt chemical precipitates in a transparent fluid, when viewed perpendicularly from above : so... | |
| Dionysius Lardner - 1858 - Liczba stron: 912
...stratum of luminous clouds of varying depth and having an unequal surface, or the tppearance produced by the slow subsidence of some flocculent chemical precipitates in a transparent fluid, when looked at perpendicularly from above. In the space immediately around the edge* of the spots extensive... | |
| Dionysius Lardner - 1860 - Liczba stron: 614
...matter. 173 minous clouds of varying depth and having an unequal surface, or the appearance produced by the slow subsidence of some flocculent chemical precipitates in a transparent fluid, when looked at perpendicularly from above. In the space immediately around the edges of the spots extensive... | |
| 1862 - Liczba stron: 874
...is finely mottled with an appearance of minute dnrk dots or pores, which, when attenlively watcbed, are found to be in a constant state of change. There...transparent fluid, when viewed perpendicularly from above." The only part of this admirable description which I should be at all disposed to modify is that relating... | |
| George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1862 - Liczba stron: 896
...surface, and thes? are found to be in constant fluctuation. Sir John Herschel compares their appearance to the slow subsidence of some flocculent chemical precipitates...transparent fluid when viewed perpendicularly from above. Near the great spots or groups of spots there are often seen streaks more luminous than the neighboring... | |
| American cyclopaedia - 1862 - Liczba stron: 878
...surface, and these are found to be in constant fluctuation. Sir John Herschel compares their appearance to the slow subsidence of some flocculent chemical precipitates...transparent fluid when viewed perpendicularly from above. Near the great spots or groups of spots there are often seen streaks more luminous than the neighboring... | |
| 1864 - Liczba stron: 260
...where he says, " The part of the Sun's disk 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." The only part of this admirable description which I should be at all disposed to modify is that relating... | |
| sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1864 - Liczba stron: 790
...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,...which, when attentively watched, are found to be in a constunt state of change. There is nothing which represents so faithfully this appearance as the slow... | |
| Royal Astronomical Society - 1865 - Liczba stron: 316
...appearance of the Solar photosphere has been most aptly described by Sir John Herschel, who says, " There is nothing which represents so faithfully this...as the slow subsidence of some flocculent chemical precipitate in a transparent fluid, when viewed perpendicularly from above." The whole surface of the... | |
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