 | sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - 500 pages
...there is no doubt that these losses have often arisen from mistaken entries, yet in many instances it is equally certain that there is no mistake in the observation or entry, and that the star has really been observed, and as really has disappeared from the heavens.* This is a branch of practical... | |
 | Sir John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1833 - 444 pages
...there is no doubt that these losses have often arisen from mistaken entries, yet in many instances it is equally certain that there is no mistake in the observation or entry, and that the star has really been observed, and as really has disappeared from the heavens.* This is a branch of practical... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1834 - 590 pages
...there is no doubt that these losses have often arisen from mistaken entries, yet, in many instances, it is equally certain that there is no mistake in the observation or entry, and that the star has really been observed, and as really has disappeared from the heavens.' — Treatise on Astronomy, p.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1834 - 600 pages
...there is no doubt that these losses have often arisen from mistaken entries, yet, in many instances, it is equally certain that there is no mistake in the observation or entry, and that the star has really been observed, and as really has disappeared from the heavens.' — Treatise on Astronomy, p.... | |
 | John Farrar - Astronomy - 1834 - 504 pages
...there is no doubt that these losses have often arisen from mistaken entries, yet in many instances it is equally certain that there is no mistake in the observation or entry, and that the star lias really been observed, and as really has disappeared from the heavens. This is a branch of practical... | |
 | Mrs. L. H. Tyler - Astronomy - 1837 - 302 pages
...years, many years, do. do. 2 to 4 3 " 5 3 " 4 3 " 5 37 " 4 2 " 0 6 ' 11 4 ' 10 6 ' 0 7 ' 0 3 ' 6 6 " 0 there is no mistake in the observation or entry, and that the star has really been observed, and as really disappeared from the heavens." (406.) Only a glance at the starry... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 pages
...probable that apparent losses have often arisen from mistaken entries ; yet, in many instances it is certain that there is no mistake in the observation or entry, and that stars have really bean observed, and as really have disappeared. A stiir of the fifth magnitude, 55... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1849 - 672 pages
...a comparison of catalogues, many stars are now found to be missing; and although there is no doubt that these losses have arisen in the great majority...in the observation or entry, and that the star has really been observed, and as really has disappeared from the heavens. The whole subject of variable... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - England - 1868 - 592 pages
...are almost precisely the same. Some few stars are certainly missing ; but Sir J. Herschel informs us that these losses have arisen, in the great majority...and in some, from planets having been mistaken for fixed stars ; yet, in some, he says, it is equally certain that there is no mistake in the observation,... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1860 - 896 pages
...probable that apparent losses have often arisen from mistaken entries ; yet, in many instances it is certain that there is no mistake in the observation or entry, and that stars have really been observed, and as really have disappeared. A star of the fifth magnitude, 55... | |
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On a careful re-examination of the heavens, too, and a comparison of catalogues, many stars are now found to be missing-; and although there is no doubt that these losses have often arisen from mistaken entries, yet in many instances it is equally certain... 
