 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 378 pages
...not perceive the thousandth part of them, to be the whole contents of the heavens. Allowing him now the use of a common telescope, he begins to suspect...which surrounds the sphere, may be owing to stars : he perceives a few clusters of them in various parts of the heavens, and finds also that there is... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 376 pages
...not perceive the thousandth part of them, to be the whole contents of the heavens. Allowing him now the use of a common telescope, he begins to suspect...which surrounds the sphere, may be owing to stars : he perceives a few clusters of them in various parts of the heavens, and finds also that there is... | |
 | 560 pages
...all sizes. Or, if the united brightness of a neighbouring cluster of stars, should, in a remarkable clear night, reach his sight, it will put on the appearance...the sphere, may be owing to stars. By increasing his powers of vision he becomes certain, that the milky way is indeed no other than a collection of very... | |
 | James Smith - Industrial arts - 1815 - 684 pages
...Sirius, it cannot be expected that his eyes should reach the borders of a cluster, which has perhaps fifty stars in depth every where around him. The whole...increasing his power of vision, he becomes certain that the milky-way is, indeed, no other than a collection of very small stars, and the nebulae nothing but clusters... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1816 - 420 pages
...not even perceive the thousandth part, to he the whole contents of the heavens. Allowing him, now, the use of a common telescope, he begins to suspect...which surrounds the sphere may be owing to stars. He perceives a few clusters of them in various parts of the heavens, and finds also that these are... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 382 pages
...will at present suppose that those of the second magnitude are at double, and those of the third are treble the distance, and so forth. Taking it then...way is, indeed, no other than a collection of very email stars, and the nebulx nothing but clusters of stars. Dr. Herschel then solves a general problem... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 894 pages
...even perceive the thousandth part of them, to be the whole contents of the heavens. Allowing him now the use of a common telescope, he begins to suspect...which surrounds the sphere may be owing to stars. He perceives я few clusters of them in various parts of the heavens, and finds also that there are... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - Physics - 1826 - 236 pages
...attention. Allowing him the use of a commen telescope, he begins to suspect that all the milkyness of the bright path which surrounds the sphere may...increasing his power of vision, he becomes certain, ^hat the milky way is, indeed, no other than a collection of very small stars, and the nebulae nothing... | |
 | S. Treeby - Astronomy - 1826 - 244 pages
...of them, to be the whole contents of the Heavens. Allowing him now the use of a common telesscope, he begins to suspect that all the milkiness of the...which surrounds the sphere may be owing to stars. He perceives a few clusters of them in various parts of the heavens, and finds, also, that there is... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 852 pages
...even perceive the 1000th part of them, to be the whole contents of the heavens. 203. Allowing him now the use of a common telescope, he begins to suspect, that all the rnilkiness of the bright path which surrounds the sphere may be owing to stars. He perceives a few... | |
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... to be the whole contents of the heavens. Allowing him now the use of a common telescope, he begins to suspect that all the milkiness of the bright path which surrounds the sphere may be owing to stars. He perceives a few clusters of them in various... 
