| James Ferguson - Astronomy - 1809 - 574 pages
...merablc. numDer or tnejr distances. The celebrated HUYGENS carried his thoughts so far, as to believe it inconceivable distances, that their light has not yet reached the Earth since its creation ; although the velocity of light be a million of times greater than the velocity of a... | |
| Christoph Christian Sturm - Calendars - 1820 - 402 pages
...probability of thousands more existing ; nay, some very profound philosophers have supposid there are stars at such inconceivable distances, that their light has not yet reached the earth since its creation, although the velocity with which light passes is a million times greater than that of... | |
| Almanacs, English - 1816 - 420 pages
...minute, would be more than seven millions of years in passing from the star y Draconis to the Earth. The celebrated Huygens pursued speculations of this...distances that their light has not yet reached the Earth, alZ though it has been travelling ever since the creation at the rate of 200,000 miles in each second... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1816 - 1082 pages
...set no limits either to their number or their distances. The celebrated Huygens carries his thoughts so far, as to believe it not impossible, that there...stars at such inconceivable distances, that their lyht has not yei reached the Earth since its creation, although the velocity of light be a million... | |
| Thomas Arnold - Marine insurance - 1822 - 1008 pages
...set no limits either to their number or their distances. The celebrated Huygens carried his thoughts so far, as to believe it not impossible that there...that their light has not yet reached the earth since its creation ; although the velocity of light be a million of times greater than the velocity of a... | |
| 1840 - 520 pages
...that we can set no limits to their number or distances. The celebrated Huygens carried his thoughts so far, as to believe it not impossible that there...may be stars at such inconceivable distances, that light has not yet reached the earth from them since their creation ; although its velocity is a million... | |
| Christoph Christian Sturm - Calendars - 1823 - 382 pages
...probability of thousands more existing ; nay, some very profound philosophers have supposed there are stars at such inconceivable, distances, that their light has not yet reached the earth since its creation, although the velocity with which light passes is a million times greater than that of... | |
| Christoph Christian Sturm - Devotional exercises - 1824 - 332 pages
...probability of thousands more existing ; nay, some very profound philosophers have supposed there are stars at such inconceivable distances, that their light has not yet reached the earth since its creation, although the velocity, with which light passes is a million times greater than that of... | |
| George G. Carey - Astronomy - 1825 - 274 pages
...former distance, and 2 million 800 thousand, in passing through the latter. The celebrated astronomer, Huygens, pursued speculations of this kind so far,...that their light has not yet reached the earth since their creation. The late Professor Playfair, in speaking of the fixed stars, says, " As it cannot be... | |
| Tobias Ostrander - Astronomy - 1832 - 276 pages
...limits to their numbers, or to their immeasurable distances. The celebrated Huygens carried his thoughts so far, as to believe it not impossible, that there...that their light has not yet reached the earth since their creation ; although the velocity of light, be a million of times greater than the velocity of... | |
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