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" This is an irresolvable nebula, figured by Sir John Herschel, during his residence at the Cape of Good Hope. Its favourable position, as seen in southern latitudes, enabled Herschel to trace the outline of the nebula much farther than any preceding observer... "
Elements of Astronomy ...: With Explanatory Notes, and Questions for Examination - Page 318
by John Brocklesby - 1855 - 321 pages
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The Planetary and Stellar Worlds: A Popular Exposition of the Great ...

Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - Astronomy - 1848 - 380 pages
...the Shield of Sobieski. RA 18 h. 1 1 m. Decl. S. 16° 16'. THIS is an irresolvable nebula, figured by Sir John Herschel, during his residence at the Cape of Good Hope. Its favorable position, as seen in southern latitudes, enabled Herschel to trace the outline of the...
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The Orbs of Heaven, Or, The Planetary and Stellar Worlds: A Popular ...

Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - Astronomy - 1851 - 366 pages
...hypothesis. PLATE III. — NEBULA IN THE SHIELT OF SOBIESKI. — This is an irresolvable nebula, figured by Sir John Herschel, during his residence at the Cape of Good Hope. Its favourable position, as seen in southern latitudes, enabled Herschel to trace the outline of the...
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The Orbs of Heaven, Or, The Planetary and Stellar Worlds: A Popular ...

Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - Astronomy - 1851 - 374 pages
...hypothesis. PLATE III. — NEBULA IN THE SHIELD OF SOBIESKI. — This is an irresolvable nebula, figured by Sir John Herschel, during his residence at the Cape of Good Hope. Its favourable position, as seen in southern latitudes, enabled Herschel to trace the outline of the...
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Popular Astronomy, And, The Orbs of Heaven

Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - Astronomy - 1860 - 698 pages
...hypothesis. PLATE III. — NEBXTLA IN THE SHIELD or SOBIESKI. — This iť an irresolvable nebula, figured by Sir John Herschel, during his residence at the Cape of Good Hope. Its favourable position, a* seen in southern latitudes, enabled Herschel to trace the outline of the...
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Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art ...

1864 - 382 pages
...communicating; and having its longer axis nearly in a meridian. According to the elaborate delineation made by Sir John Herschel, during his residence at the Cape of Good Hope, of which an engraving is published in the " Results " of his Cape observations, both ends of this oval...
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The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in ..., Volume 15

Industrial arts - 1865 - 372 pages
...communicating ; and having its longer axis nearly in a meridian. According to the elaborate delineation made by Sir John Herschel, during his residence at the Cape of Good Hope, of which an engraving is published in the " Results " of his Cape observations, both ends of this oval...
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A Dictionary of Science, Literature, & Art: Comprising the ..., Volume 2

William Thomas Brande - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1866 - 968 pages
...recorded by the navigator Magellan, and named after him. These singular objects were carefully examined by Sir John Herschel during his residence at the Cape of Good Hope from 1834 to 1S38, and are minutely described in his Iltsults <;/ Astronomical Observations, &c. The...
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Elements of Astronomy, for Schools and Academies with Explanatory Notes, and ...

John Brocklesby - 1872 - 374 pages
...NUMBER AND DISTANCE OF STELLAR CLUSTERS AND NEBULAS. About two thousand stellar clusters and nelwlce were observed by Sir William Herschel. In 1833 the...thousand by the splendid discoveries made by Sir John Ilerschel, during his residence at the Cape of Good Hope. The distance of the nebulae from the earth...
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A Dictionary of Science, Literature, & Art: Comprising the ..., Volume 2

William Thomas Brande, George William Cox - Art - 1875 - 982 pages
...recorded by the navigator Magellan, and named after him. These singular objects were carefully examined by Sir John Herschel during his residence at the Cape of Good Hope from 1834 to 1838, and are minutely described in his Results oj Astronomical Observations, &c. The...
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THE MOUND BUILDERS

J. P. MACI. EAN. - 1879 - 258 pages
...published in New York about forty years ago, and purported to be a series of discoveries made in the moon by Sir John Herschel, during his residence at the Cape of Good Hope. It is a well known fact among astronomers that, with a given-sized objeet-glass, the power of the telescope...
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