 | sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - 500 pages
...with the idea of a luminous medium intermixed, but not confounded, with a transparent and non-luminous atmosphere, either floating as clouds in our air,...like flame, or the streamers of our northern lights. (331.) Lastly, in the neighbourhood of great spots, or extensive groups of them, large spaces of the... | |
 | Sir John Frederick William Herschel - 1833 - 444 pages
...with the idea of a luminous medium intermixed, but not confounded, with a transparent and non-luminous atmosphere, either floating as clouds in our air,...like flame, or the streamers of our northern lights. (.331.) Lastly, in the neighbourhood of great spots, or extensive groups of them, large spaces of the... | |
 | 1834 - 596 pages
...not confounded, with a transparent and non-luminous atmosphere, either floating is clouds in onrair, or pervading it in vast sheets and columns like flame, or the streamers of our northern lights.' — P. 208. With regard to the temperature of the sun, and the mode in which the abundant supply of... | |
 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1842 - 536 pages
...There is nothing which represents so faithfully this appearance as the slow subsidence SUN 281 SUN of some flocculent chemical precipitates in a transparent...but it is important to remember that living, as we roust, under an atmosphere, we cannot positively assert anything as to what may take place beyond it.... | |
 | 1842 - 1046 pages
...is nothing which represents so faithfully this appearance as the slow subsidence of some Uocculent chemical precipitates in a transparent fluid, when...or the streamers of our northern lights.' The mind U lost in wonder at the idea of such a body of luminous material: but it is important to remember that... | |
 | 1842 - 538 pages
...appearance as the slow subsidence , of some flocculent chemical precipitates in a transparent lluid, when viewed perpendicularly from above; so faithfully...air, or pervading it in vast sheets and columns like llame, or the streamers of our northern lights.' The mind is lost in wonder at the idea of such a body... | |
 | 1842 - 1162 pages
...a transparent and unluminous atmosphère, either floating, as clouds in our air, or pervading it iu vast sheets and columns like flame, or the streamers...remember that living, as we must, under an atmosphere, we cannot positively assert anything as to what may take place beyond it. It is possible, though not... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - 1849 - 672 pages
...with the idea of a luminous medium intermixed, but not confounded, with a transparent and non-luminous atmosphere, either floating as clouds in our air,...like flame, or the streamers of our northern lights, directed in lines perpendicular to the surface. (388.) Lastly, in the neighbourhood of great spots,... | |
 | sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1864 - 790 pages
...intermixed, but not confounded, with a trnnsparent and non-luminous atmosphere, either floating as '•louds in our air, or pervading it in vast sheets and columns...like flame, or the streamers of our northern lights, directed in lines perpendicular to the surface, f [See § (387 a) Note G]. * Half the sun's disc is... | |
 | Scientific and technical reader - 1869 - 408 pages
...with the idea of a luminous medium intermixed, but not confounded, with a transparent and non-luminous atmosphere, either floating as clouds in our air,...like flame, or the streamers of our northern lights, directed in lines perpendicular to the surface. Lastly, in the neighbourhood of great spots, or extensive... | |
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... the slow subsidence of some flocculent chemical precipitates in a transparent fluid, when viewed perpendicularly from above: so faithfully, indeed, that it is hardly possible not to be impressed with the idea of a luminous medium intermixed, but not... 
