 | sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - 500 pages
...the stars of our firmament, instead of being scattered in all directions indifferently through space, form a stratum, of which the thickness is small, in comparison with its length and breadth; and in which the earth occupies a place somewhere about the middle of its thickness, and near the point... | |
 | Sir John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1833 - 444 pages
...the stars of our firmament, instead of being scattered in all directions indifferently through space, form a stratum, of which the thickness is small, in comparison with its length and breadth; and in which the earth occupies a place somewhere about the middle of its thickness, and near the point... | |
 | John Farrar - Astronomy - 1834 - 504 pages
...the stars of our firmament, instead of being scattered in all directions indifferently through space, form a stratum, of which the thickness is small, in comparison with its length and breadth ; and in which the earth occupies a place somewhere about the middle of its thickness, and near the... | |
 | Henry Duncan - Natural theology - 1836 - 430 pages
...their own. Of these nebulae, as they are called, our own seems to be of a singular figure, forming a stratum, of which the thickness is small in comparison with its length and breadth, and which is divided into two branches, inclined at a small angle to each other, near the point in... | |
 | 1839 - 534 pages
...the stars of our firmament, instead of being scattered in all directions indefinitely through spare, form a stratum, of which the thickness is small, in comparison with its length and breadth; and in which the earth occupies a place somewhere about the middle of its thickness, and near the point... | |
 | 1839 - 532 pages
...the stars of our firmament, instead of being scattered m ail direction* indefinitely through space, form a stratum, of which the thickness is small, in comparison with it» lcn$:b and breadth; and in which the earth occupies a place «uo«where about the middle of its... | |
 | American literature - 1859 - 626 pages
...the stars of our firmament idstead of being scattered in all directions indifferently through space, form a stratum of which the thickness is small in comparison with its length and breadth, and in which the earth occupies a place somewhere about the middle of its thickness." And then we might... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - Science - 1846 - 580 pages
...the stars of our firmament, instead of being scattered in all directions indifferently through space, form a stratum, of which the thickness is small in comparison with its length and breadth ; and in which the earth occupies a place somewhere about the middle of its thickness, and near the... | |
 | Henry Duncan - Natural theology - 1847 - 430 pages
...their own. Of these nebulae, as they are called, our own seems to be of a singular figure, forming a stratum of which the thickness is small in comparison with its length and breadth, and which is divided into two branches, inclined at a small angle to each other, near the point in... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1849 - 672 pages
...the stars of our firmament, instead of being scattered in all directions indifferently through space, form a stratum of which the thickness is small, in comparison with its length and breadth ; and in which the earth occupies a place somewhere about the middle of its thickness, and near the... | |
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These phenomena agree with the supposition that the stars of our firmament, instead of being scattered in all directions indifferently through space, form a stratum, of which the thickness is small, in comparison with its length and breadth ; and in which... 
