 | John Patterson MacLean - Butler County (Ohio) - 1879 - 254 pages
...published in New York about forty years ago, and purported to be a series of discoveries made in the moon by Sir John Herschel, during his residence at the Cape of Good Hope. It is a well known fact among astronomers that, with a given-sized object-glass, the power of the telescope... | |
 | 1891 - 690 pages
...Secchi's points can scarcely be stellar. Many examples of this interesting class of nebulae were observed by Sir John Herschel during his residence at the Cape of Good Hope. His descriptions of some of these are given in my ' Scenery of the Heavens ' (pp. 210-212). The gaseous... | |
 | John Ellard Gore - Astronomy - 1893 - 486 pages
...Numerous measures of these most interesting objects were made at Dorpat and Poulkova in Russia, and Sir John Herschel during his residence at the Cape of Good Hope in the years 1834 — 1838 extended the research into the Southern Hemisphere and added largely to... | |
 | John Ellard Gore - Astronomy - 1894 - 376 pages
...surrounding the curious variable star, Eta Argus, in the Southern Hemisphere, was carefully observed by Sir John Herschel, during his residence at the Cape of Good Hope in the years 1834-38. He gives an elaborate and beautiful drawing of the nebula in his Cape Observations.... | |
 | John Ellard Gore - Astronomy - 1907 - 412 pages
...about RA 0h 28m and 1" 15m, and 72° to 75° south declination. The nubeculce were carefully examined by Sir John Herschel during his residence at the Cape of Good Hope in the years 1834 to 1838, and he gives an account of his observations in his interesting and valuable... | |
 | Science - 1912 - 660 pages
...in the amount of precipitation, although no increase in the amount of condensation. Many years ago, Sir John Herschel, during his residence at the Cape of Good Hope, called attention to the fact that, when low clouds were closely overhead, a shower of rain might be... | |
 | Science - 1913 - 708 pages
...in the amount of precipitation, although no increase in the amount of condensation. Many years ago, Sir John Herschel, during his residence at the Cape of Good Hope, called attention to the fact that, when low clouds were closely overhead, a shower of rain might be... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1863 - 862 pages
...communicating, and having its longer axis nearly in a meridian. According to the elaborate delineation made by Sir John Herschel during his residence at the Cape of Good Hope, of which an engraving is published in the " Results " of his Cape observations, both ends of this oval... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1874 - 464 pages
...in New York about thirty years ago, which purported to l>ea series of discoveries made in the moon by Sir John Herschel during his residence at the Cape of Good Hope. These discoveries were said to be the result of a great improvement in the telescope. It is well known... | |
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This is an irresolvable nebula, figured by Sir John Herschel, during his residence at the Cape of Good Hope. Its favourable position, as seen in southern latitudes, enabled Herschel to trace the outline of the nebula much farther than any preceding observer... 
