 | John Frederick William Herschel - 1833 - 444 páginas
...years, in such a journey, at the very lowest estimate. What, then, are we to allow for the distance of those innumerable stars of the smaller magnitudes which the telescope discloses to us ! If we admit the light of a star of each magnitude to be half that of the magnitude next above it,... | |
 | 1833 - 468 páginas
...years, in such a journey, at the very lowest estimate. What, then, are we to allow for the distance of those innumerable stars of the smaller magnitudes, which the telescope discloses to us ! If we admit the light of a star of each magnitude to be half that of the magnitude next above it,... | |
 | sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - 500 páginas
...years, in such a journey, at the very lowest estimate. What, then, are we to allow for the distance of those innumerable stars of the smaller magnitudes which the telescope discloses to us ! If we admit the light of a star of each magnitude to be half that of the magnitude next above it,... | |
 | Frances Barbara Burton - 1837 - 202 páginas
...'3rd. — The immensity of their remoteness from us. " How then are we to allow for the distance of " those innumerable stars of the smaller magnitudes " which the telescope discloses to us ! If we admit " the light of a star of one magnitude to be half " that of the magnitude next above... | |
 | Frances Barbara Burton - 1838 - 146 páginas
...Way stars of inferior magnitudes, he proceeds to say, "How then are we to allow for the dis' tance of those innumerable stars of the smaller magnitudes ' which the telescope discloses to us ! If we admit the light 'of a star of one magnitude to be half that of the magnitude ' next above it,... | |
 | Thomas Lockerby - 1839 - 566 páginas
...years, in such a journey, at the very lowest estimate. What, then, are we to allow for the distance of those innumerable stars, of the smaller magnitudes, which the telescope discloses to us ! If we admit the light of a star, of each magnitude, to be half that of the magnitude next above it,... | |
 | 1844 - 766 páginas
...years in sueh a journey, at the very lowest estimate. What then are we to allow for the distance of those innumerable stars of the smaller magnitudes which the telescope discloses to us ?" " It may be demonstrated by the most unexceptionable calculation, that among the countless multitude... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - 1849 - 672 páginas
...absence of all other indications) the nearest stars exceed, what are we to allow for the distance of those innumerable stars of the smaller magnitudes...dimensions of the galaxy in whose remoter regions, as we have seen, the united lustre of myriads of stars is perceptible only in powerful telescopes as... | |
 | 1850 - 556 páginas
...absence of all other indications) the nearest stars exceed, what are we to allow for the distance of those innumerable stars of the smaller magnitudes...dimensions of the galaxy in whose remoter regions, as we have seen, the united lustre of myriads of stars is perceptible only in powerful telescopes as... | |
 | Edward Bouverie Pusey - 1853 - 424 páginas
...absence of all other indications) the nearest stars exceed, what are we to allow for the distance of those innumerable stars of the smaller magnitudes...dimensions of the galaxy, in whose remoter regions, (as we have seen,) the united lustre of myriads of stars is perceptible only in powerful telescopes... | |
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It would, therefore, occupy 100000000 seconds, or upwards of three years, in such a journey, at the very lowest estimate. What, then, are we to allow for the distance of those innumerable stars of the smaller magnitudes which the telescope discloses to... 
