| John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1849 - 672 pages
...earth's orbit in 8 m 13'-3. It would, therefore, occupy 206265 times this interval or 3 years and 83 days to traverse the distance in question. Now as...inferior limit which it is already ascertained that even Ihe brightest and therefore (in the absence of all other indications) the nearest stars exceed, what... | |
| Christianity - 1850 - 626 pages
...semidiameter of the earth's orbit in 8 m 13'-3. It would, therefore, occupy 206,265 times this'interval or three years and eightythree days to traverse the distance...the nearest stars exceed, what are we to allow for the distance of those innumerable stars of the smaller magnitudes which the telescope discloses to... | |
| John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1851 - 744 pages
...earth's orbit in 8m 13'-3. It would, therefore, occupy 206265 times this interval or 3 years and 83 days to traverse the distance in question. Now as...the nearest stars exceed, what are we to allow for the distance of those innumerable stars of the smaller magnitudes which the telescope discloses to... | |
| Edward Bouverie Pusey - Sermons, English - 1853 - 424 pages
...greater senselessness." S. Chrys. 1. c. § 3. pp. 451, 452. k " As this [twenty billions of our miles] is an inferior limit, which it is already ascertained...the nearest stars exceed, what are we to allow for the distance of those innumerable stars of the smaller magnitudes which the telescope discloses to... | |
| John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1857 - 608 pages
...occupy 206265 times this interval, or 3 years and 83 days to traverse the distance in question. Now :is this is an inferior limit which it is already ascertained...therefore (in the absence of all other indications) the distance of those innumerable stars of the smaller magnitudes which the telescope discloses to us !... | |
| sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - Astronomy - 1858 - 790 pages
...earth's orbit in 8m 13"-3. It would, therefore, occupy 206265 times this interval or 3 years and 83 days to traverse the distance in question. Now as this is an inferior limit which it ia already ascertained that even the brightest and therefore (in the absence of all other indications)... | |
| Edward Bouverie Pusey - Sermons, English - 1860 - 422 pages
...above our heads.* That star whose distance we can hardly measure in thought, about twenty-two thousands it is already ascertained that even the brightest...the nearest stars exceed, what are we to allow for the distance of those innumerable stars of smaller magnitudes which the telescope discloses to us ?... | |
| John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1861 - 586 pages
...earth's orbit in 8™ 13'-3. It would, therefore, occupy 206265 times this interval, or 3 years and 83 days to traverse the distance in question. Now as...therefore (in the absence of all other indications) the distance of those innumerable stars of the smaller magnitudes which the telescope discloses to us !... | |
| Edward Bouverie Pusey - Sermons, English - 1862 - 416 pages
...greater senselessness." S. Chrys. 1. c. § 3. pp. 451, 452. k " As this [twenty billions of our miles] is an inferior limit, which it is already ascertained...the nearest stars exceed, what are we to allow for the distance of those innumerable stars of the smaller magnitudes which the telescope discloses to... | |
| W.H.C. BARTLETT,LL.D., - 1865 - 494 pages
...light three years and a quarter to come from the nearest fixed star to the earth. And as this is the inferior limit which it is already ascertained that...other indications, the nearest stars exceed, what is to be allowed for the distances of those innumerable stars of the smaller magnitudes which the most... | |
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