 | 1870 - 846 pages
...lunar disc ; the whole spectacle showing as upon a back* ground of diffused rose-coloured light . . . The silvery rays were longest and most prominent at...lower portion, apparently equidistant from each other .... giving the spectacle & quadrilateral form. Tbe angles of the quadrangle wore about opposite the... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1870 - 802 pages
...lunar disc ; the whole spectacle showing as upon a background of diffused rose-coloured light . . . The silvery rays were longest and most prominent at...lower portion, apparently equidistant from each other . . . giving the spectacle a quadrilateral form. The angles of the quadrangle were about opposite the... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1870 - 834 pages
...diffused rose-coloured light . . . The silvery rays were longest and most prominent at Jour points of tJie circumference — two upon the upper, and two upon...lower portion, apparently equidistant from each other . . . giving the spectacle a quadrilateral form. The angles of the quadrangle were about opposite the... | |
 | United States Naval Observatory - Solar eclipses - 1870 - 278 pages
...diffused rose-colored light. This light was most intense and extended furthest at about the center of the lower limb, the position of the southern prominence....northwestern, southeastern and southwestern points of the disk. A banding of the rays, in some respects similar, has been noted as seen at the total eclipse... | |
 | Astronomy - 1870 - 268 pages
...levels (and in Whipple's photograph), but the rays were much longer. " The silvery rays," he says, " were longest and most prominent at four points of...limbs,' giving the spectacle a quadrilateral shape." He remarks that these silvery rays were " straight and massive," and extended " to a distance of two... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1870 - 818 pages
...light . . . Th? silvery rays were longest and most prominent at four points of tin circumferenve — two upon the upper, and two upon the lower portion, apparently equidistant from each other . . . giving the spectacle a quadrilateral form. The angles of the quadrangle were about opposite the... | |
 | 1871 - 800 pages
...of the lunar disk, the whole spectacle showing as upon a background of diffused, rose-colored light The silvery rays were longest and most prominent at...portion, apparently equidistant from each other, and giving the spectacle a quadrilateral shape.' This is as accurate a description of the corona depicted... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1871 - 820 pages
...lunar disc ; the whole spectacle showing as upon a background of diffused rose-colored light . . . The silvery rays were longest and most prominent at...lower portion, apparently equidistant from each other . . . giving the spectacle a quadrilateral form. The angles of the quadrangle were about opposite the... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - Astronomy - 1872 - 488 pages
...levels (and in Whipple's photograph), but the rays were much longer. ' The silvery rays,' he says, ' were longest and most prominent at four points of...limbs," giving the spectacle a quadrilateral shape.' He remarks that these silvery rays were ' straight and massive,' and extended ' to a distance of two... | |
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The silvery rays were longest and most prominent at four points of the circumference — two upon the upper, and two upon the lower portion, apparently equidistant from each other . . . giving the spectacle a quadrilateral form. The angles of the quadrangle... 
