... fan, resembling an electric brush issuing from a lucid point ; others of the cometic shape, with a seeming nucleus in the centre, or like cloudy stars, surrounded with a nebulous atmosphere : a different sort again, contain a nebulosity of the milky... The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature - Page 12edited by - 1785Full view - About this book
| 1789 - 504 pages
...of the milky kind, like that wonderful, inexplicable phenomenon about C Qrionis ; while others mine with a fainter, mottled kind of light, which denotes their being refolvable into ftars. ' It is very probable that the great ftratum, called the milky way, is that in which the fun is placed,... | |
| William Nicholson - 1809 - 752 pages
...nucleus in the centre, or like cloudy stars, surrounded with a nebulous atmosphere : a different sort again, contain a nebulosity of the milky kind, like that wonderful inexplicable phenomenon about Orionis ; while others shine with a fainter mottled kind of light, which denotes their being resolvable... | |
| William Nicholson - Natural history - 1809 - 700 pages
...nucleus in the centre, or like cloudy stars, surrounded with a nebulous atmosphere : a different sort again, contain a nebulosity of the milky kind, like that wonderful inexplicable phenomenon about Orionis -, while others shine with a fainter mottled kind of light, which denotes their being resolvable... | |
| James Smith - Industrial arts - 1815 - 684 pages
...orb again, contain a nebulosity of the milky kind, like that wonderful, inexplirablc phenomena about Orionis ; while others shine with a fainter mottled kind of light, which denotes their being resolvable into stars. Galaxy and nebula1. " It is very probable that the great stratum called the... | |
| Almanacs, English - 1816 - 420 pages
...the milky kind, like a wonderful, and at that time denominated an inexplicable, phenomenon about & Orionis; while others shine with a fainter, mottled kind of light, which denotes their being resolvable into stars. ' It is very probable that the great stratum, called the milky way, is that... | |
| William Nicholson - Natural history - 1819 - 406 pages
...contain a nebulosity of the milky kind, like that wonderful inexplicable phenomenon about Orion is ; while others shine with a fainter mottled kind of light, which denotes their being resolvable into stars. " It is very probable that the great stratum, called the milky-way, is that... | |
| William Nicholson - Natural history - 1819 - 408 pages
...nucleus in the centre, or like cloudy stars, surrounded with a nebulous atmosphere: a different sort, again; contain a nebulosity of the milky kind, like that wonderful inexplicable phenomenon about Orion is ; while others shine with a fainter mottled kind of light, which denotes their being resolvable... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 894 pages
...nucleus in the centre, or like cloudy stars, surrounded with a nebulous atmosphere : a different sort again contain a nebulosity of the milky kind, like...inexplicable phenomenon about 6 Orionis ; while others »hiñe with a fainter mottled kind of light, which deDotes their being resolvable into stars. " ^'... | |
| George G. Carey - Astronomy - 1825 - 274 pages
...surrounded with a nebulous atmosphere ; a different sort again contain a nebulosity of the milky kind ; while others shine with a fainter, mottled kind of light, which denotes their being resolvable into stars." These observations serve to prove the intimate connection between the nebulous... | |
| Charles Frederick Partington - Science - 1828 - 468 pages
...again, containing a nebulosity of the milky kind, like that wonderful, inexplicable.phenomena about Orionis ; while others shine with a fainter mottled kind of light, which denotes their being resolvable into stars."INDEX. ACHROMATIC telescope, ii. 113. Acoustical effect of a vibrating string,... | |
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