 All the nebulae hitherto discovered, whether gaseous or stellar, irregular, planetary, ring-formed, or elliptic, exist within the limits of the sidereal system. They all form part and parcel of that wonderful system whose nearer and brighter parts constitute...  The elements of physiography - Page 225by John J. Prince - 1885Full view - About this book
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - Stars - 1874 - 404 pages
...rate of twenty miles per second. larger than the least. All the nebulae hitherto discovered, whether gaseous or stellar, irregular, planetary, ring-formed,...system whose nearer and brighter parts constitute the glories of our nocturnal heavens. It has been supposed that the new views to which I have been led... | |
 | Astronomy - 1875 - 332 pages
...greatest being thousands of times larger than the least. All the nebulas hitherto discovered, whether gaseous or stellar, irregular, planetary, ring-formed,...system, whose nearer and brighter parts constitute the glories of our nocturnal heavens " (pp. 201, 202). The careful reader will find ample argument in this... | |
 | James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - Science - 1878 - 500 pages
...greatest being thousands of times larger than the least. All the nebulee hitherto discovered, whether gaseous or stellar, irregular, planetary, ring-formed,...system whose nearer and brighter parts constitute the glory of our nocturnal heavens." It is impossible, with a theme like this, for a thoughtful mind not... | |
 | Gaston Tissandier - 1882 - 830 pages
...greatest being thousands of times larger than the least. All the Nebulae hitherto discovered, whether gaseous or stellar, irregular, planetary, ring-formed,...system, whose nearer and brighter parts constitute the glories of our nocturnal heavens." And a little reflection will show how true this is. Not very long... | |
 | Richard S. Peale - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 548 pages
...greatest being thousands of times larger than the least. All the nebulae hitherto discovered, whether gaseous or stellar, irregular, planetary, ring-formed,...system whose nearer and brighter parts constitute the glories of our nocturnal heavens." And a little reflection will show how true this is. Not very long... | |
 | John Ellard Gore - Astronomy - 1893 - 480 pages
...All the nebulae hitherto discovered, whether gaseous or stellar, irregular, planetary, ring formed, or elliptic, exist within the limits of the sidereal...system whose nearer and brighter parts constitute the glories of onr nocturnal heavens." CHAPTEE XVIII. INFINITE SPACE AND A LIMITED UNIVERSE. One Wonderful,... | |
 | Royal Astronomical Society of Canada - Astronomy - 1919 - 1112 pages
...to subscribe to the dictum of Proctor, in 1872, that "all the nebulte hitherto discovered, whether gaseous or stellar, irregular, planetary, ring-formed,...system whose nearer and brighter parts constitute the glories of our nocturnal heavens. Proctor, it is true, did not hold this view rigidly. For instance,... | |
 | Hector Macpherson - Astronomie - 1926 - 220 pages
...greatest being thousands of times larger than the least. All the nebulae hitherto discovered, whether gaseous or stellar, irregular, planetary, ring-formed,...system whose nearer and brighter parts constitute the glories of our nocturnal heavens.' The excess of bright stars on the Galaxy was interpreted by Proctor... | |
 | Astronomy - 1928 - 414 pages
...greatest being thousands of times larger than the least. All the nebulre hitherto discovered, whether gaseous or stellar, irregular, planetary, ringformed...elliptic, exist within the limits of the sidereal system " *. Proctor maintained that this view did not reduce the scale of the stellar Universe. " I do not,"... | |
 | Michael J. Crowe - Science - 1994 - 468 pages
...greatest being thousands of times larger than the least. All the nebulae hitherto discovered, whether gaseous or stellar, irregular, planetary, ring-formed,...system whose nearer and brighter parts constitute the glories of our nocturnal heavens.1 Moreover, Proctor argued for the rejection of the disk theory of... | |
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