 ... the firmament of large stars, into which the central cluster would be seen projected, and (owing to its greater distance) appearing like it to consist of stars much smaller than those in other parts of the heavens. "Can it be,'' asks Sir J. Herschel,...  The National Quarterly Review - Pagina 101geredigeerd door - 1868Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Mary Somerville - 1834 - 666 pagina’s
...nebula bears a strong similitude to the milky way, and suggested to Sir John Herschel the idea of ' a brother system bearing a real physical resemblance and strong analogy of structure to our own.' It appears that double nebulae are not uufrequent, exhibiting all the varieties of distance, position,... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1834 - 390 pagina’s
...nebula bears a strong similitude to the milky-way, and suggested to Sir John Herschel the idea of ' a brother system bearing a real physical resemblance and strong analogy of structure to our own.' It appears that double nebulae are not unfrequent, exhibiting all the varieties of distance, position,... | |
 | 1834 - 494 pagina’s
...which the central cluster would be seen projected. Can it, then, be that we have here a brother-system, bearing a real physical resemblance and strong analogy of structure to our own? Were it not for the subdivision of the ring, the most obvious analogy would be that of the system of... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1835 - 532 pagina’s
...nebula bears a strong similitude to the milky way, and suggested to Sir John Herschel the idea of a " brother system bearing a real physical resemblance and strong analogy of structure to our own."3 It appears that double nebula; are not unfrequent, exhibiting all the varieties of distance,... | |
 | Augustus De Morgan - 1836 - 140 pagina’s
...like it, to " consist of stars much smaller than those in other parts of the hea" vens. Can it then be that we have here a real brother system, " bearing...resemblance and strong analogy of structure " to our own ? — The elliptic form of the inner subdivided portion " indicates with extreme probability nn elevation... | |
 | 1840 - 460 pagina’s
...represents Sir W. Herschel's scheme of the Milky Way; and hence Sir John Herschel describes it as " a brother system, bearing a real physical resemblance and strong analogy of structure to our own." This object, dim and distant as it may appear through our telescopes, and utterly invisible as it is... | |
 | 1841 - 444 pagina’s
...nebula bears a strong similitude to the milky way, and suggested to Sir John Herschel the idea of a " brother system bearing a real physical resemblance and strong analogy of structure to our own." It appears that double nebulae are not mifrequent, exhibiting all the varieties of distance, position,... | |
 | 1854 - 886 pagina’s
...smaller than those in other parts of the heavens. Can it, then, be that we have here a brothersystem, bearing a real physical resemblance, and strong analogy of structure, to our own ?" To describe in detail the various kinds of nebulce scattered by hundreds over the face of the heavens... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt - 1845 - 514 pagina’s
...Observations on Nebula: and Clusters of Stars (Phil. Trans. 1833, Pt. ii. p. 479, fig. 25) : " we have here a brother system, bearing a real physical resemblance and strong analogy of structure to our own." 83 (p. 160.)— Sir William Herschel, in the Transact, for 1785, Pt. ip 257; Sir John Herschel, Astr.... | |
 | 1845 - 546 pagina’s
...stars much smaller than those in other parts of the heavens. Can it, then, be that we have ; here a brother system bearing a real physical resemblance and strong analogy of structure to our own ? Were it not for the subdivision" of the ring, the most obvious analogy would be that of the system... | |
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