 | Richard S. Peale - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 548 pages
...scatters the sunlight in every direction. Were it not for this, no object would be visible to us out of direct sunshine ; every shadow of a passing cloud...pitchy darkness ; the stars would be visible all day ; no window would admit light except as the sun shone directly through it, and a man would require... | |
 | Joel Dorman Steele - Astronomy - 1899 - 382 pages
...in every direction. Were it not for this, no object out of direct sunshine would be visible to us ; every shadow of a passing cloud would be pitchy darkness; the stars would be visible all day ; no window would admit light except as the sun shone directly through it, and BA ILLUSTRATING ABERRATION... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Astronomy - 1840 - 458 pages
...visible to us out of direct sunshine ; every shadow of a passing cloud would involve us in midnight darkness ; the stars would be visible all day ; and...sun had not direct admission would be involved in the obscurity of night. This scattering action of the atmosphere on the solar light is greatly increased... | |
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Were it not for the reflective and scattering power of the atmosphere, no objects would be visible to us out of direct sunshine; every shadow of a passing cloud would be pitchy darkness ; the stars would be visible all day, and every apartment, into which... 
