| Samuel Hutchins - 1868 - Liczba stron: 120
...miles. . . . The part of the sun's disk not occupied by spots is far from being uniformly bright. Its ground is finely mottled with an appearance of minute...transparent fluid, when viewed perpendicularly from above." That the SPOTS are not mountains of the sun laid bare is evident, for THEY SHIFT their position like... | |
| John Frederick William Herschel - 1869 - Liczba stron: 590
...1753. "Ingens macula in sole conspiciebatur. cujus diam etet = 51a diam. soils. uniformly bright. Its ground is finely mottled with an appearance of minute,...viewed perpendicularly from above : so faithfully, indced, that it is hardly possible not to be impressed with the idea of a luminous medium intermixed,... | |
| Scientific and technical reader - 1869 - Liczba stron: 408
...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 state of perpetual change. There is liothing which represents so faithfully this appearance as the... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1874 - Liczba stron: 734
...he says : — " 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." Mr. Dawes endorses this description — with the exception of the constant change of the pores, which... | |
| English literature - 1874 - Liczba stron: 274
...1000 miles a day. 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 state of perpetual change. There is nothing which represents so faithfully this appearance as the slow... | |
| Dionysius Lardner - 1875 - Liczba stron: 766
...of lu'73 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, wheu looked at perpendicularly from above. In the space immediately around the edges of the spots extensive... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1882 - Liczba stron: 390
...description of the sun's surface which agrees very completely with the processes here supposed. He says: " There is nothing which represents so faithfully this appearance as the slow subsidence of some floeculent chemical precipitation into a transparent fluid, when viewed perpendicularly from above... | |
| United States Entomological Commission - 1883 - Liczba stron: 614
...is far from uniformly bright Its ground is finely mottled with an appearance of minute, dark spots or pores, which, when attentively watched, are found...transparent fluid, when viewed perpendicularly from above. Lastly, in the neighborhood of great •pots, or extensive groups of them, large spaces of the surface... | |
| United States Entomological Commission - 1883 - Liczba stron: 612
...is far from uniformly bright. Its grouud is finely mottled with an appearance of minute, dark spots or pores, which, when attentively watched, are found...transparent fluid, when viewed perpendicularly from above. Lastly, in the neighborhood of gieat spots, or extensive* groups of them, large spaces of the surface... | |
| George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1883 - Liczba stron: 994
...heat. These are found to be in constant fluctuation, and Sir J. 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... | |
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