| Richard Anthony Proctor - 1883 - Liczba stron: 438
...conveyed in a letter from Lord Rosse to Professor Nichol. ' I think I may safely say,' he wrote, ' that there can be little, if any, doubt as to the...nebula. Since you left us, there was not a single night when, in the absence of the moon, the air was fine enough to admit of our using more than half... | |
| Michael J. Crowe - 1994 - Liczba stron: 468
...Subsequently his Lordship communicated the result of his farther examination of Orion as follows: — "I think I may safely say, that there can be little if any doubt as the resolvability of the nebula. — We could plainly see that all about the Trapezium is a mass of... | |
| Timothy Lenoir - 1998 - Liczba stron: 484
...saw then, in the drawing by Sir John Herschel."77 On March 19, 1846, however, Rosse wrote to Nichol that "there can be little, if any, doubt as to the resolvability of the nebula." As Nichol put it in print later that year, the Orion nebula now seemed little more than a "SAND HEAP... | |
| Caroline A. Jones, Peter Galison, Amy E. Slaton - 1998 - Liczba stron: 536
...Rosses team had successfully resolved the key object.59 On March 19, 1846, Rosse told Nichol and others that "there can be little, if any, doubt as to the resolvability of the nebula."6l However, in 1846 there was simply no publicly available picture of the Orion nebula in its... | |
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