 | sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - 500 pages
...to atoms by an explosion ; and that more such fragments exist, and may be hereafter discovered. This may serve as a specimen of the dreams in which astronomers,...speculators, occasionally and harmlessly indulge. (435. ) We shall devote the rest of this chapter to an account of the physical peculiarities and probable... | |
 | Sir John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1833 - 444 pages
...to atoms by an explosion ; and that more such fragments exist, and may be hereafter discovered. This may serve as a specimen of the dreams in which astronomers,...speculators, occasionally and harmlessly indulge. (4:35. ) We shall devote the rest of this chapter to an account of the physical peculiarities and probable... | |
 | 1834 - 596 pages
...extravagant hypothesis of Olbers respecting the formation of the four ultra-zodiacal planets. ' This may serve as a specimen ' of the dreams in which astronomers, like other speculators, occasion' ally and harmlessly indulge.' — P. 277. The prodigious number of stars which appear in... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1837 - 422 pages
...planet, which formerly circulated in that interval ; but has been blown to atoms by an explosion. This may serve as a specimen of the dreams, in which astronomers, like other speculators, may harmlessly indulge." diameters of their three external neighbours, however, are — Uranus, 35,112... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - Astronomy - 1843 - 604 pages
...of their having previously escaped notice. * No Satellite has yet been seen to attend this planet. t By this is meant, not the distance of the planet,...condition from being ascertained. They agree, however, in these ; — that their mean distances from the Sun, and their period of revolution around him, are... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - Astronomy - 1844 - 604 pages
...seen to attend this planet. t By this is meant, not the distance of the planet, but the spner aru» between the orbits. 607. When these four small planets,...condition from being ascertained. They agree, however, in these ; — that their mean distances from the Sun, and their period of revolution around him, are... | |
 | Hiram Mattison - Astronomy - 1849 - 290 pages
...favored by Prof.: Nichol, Dr. Brewster, Dr. Dick, and others ; while Sir John Herschel observes that it may serve as a specimen of the dreams in which astronomers,...speculators, occasionally and harmlessly indulge.* Dr. Dick remarks, that the breaking up of the exterior crust of the earth, at the time of the general... | |
 | John Drew - Astronomical instruments - 1853 - 386 pages
...although the French astronomers would seem to receive the conjecture as an established truth : " This may serve as a specimen of the dreams in which astronomers,...speculators, occasionally and harmlessly indulge." The application of Bode's law of the planetary distances would, nevertheless, seem to favour the conclusion.... | |
 | Samuel Warren - Civilization, Modern - 1853 - 152 pages
...atoms by an explosion ; and that more such fragments exist, and may be hereafter discovered. These may serve as a specimen of the dreams in which astronomers,...speculators, occasionally and harmlessly indulge."* A dream ? Will it be believed, that within this last seven years, no fewer than TWENTY more of these... | |
 | Samuel Warren - Great Exhibition - 1854 - 112 pages
...to atoms by an explosion : and that more such fragments exist, and may be hereafter discovered. This may serve as a specimen of the dreams in which astronomers,...speculators, occasionally and harmlessly indulge.' — A dream?— Since the year 1846, TWENTYFIVE such fragments have been discovered ! Whether any such... | |
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Asteroids, were first discovered, it was conjectured that they were the fragments of some greater planet, which formerly revolved in the orbit where it was expected, and which was blown to pieces by some internal explosive force, or shattered by collision... 
