Saturn, perhaps, devoured his children ? Or were the appearances indeed illusion or fraud, with which the glasses have so long deceived me as well as many others to whom I have shown them ? Now, perhaps, is the time come to revive the well-nigh withered... The Story of the Heavens - Page 237by Robert Stawell Ball - 1885 - 551 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1857 - 588 pages
...with which the glasses have so long deceived me, as well as many others, to whom I have shown them? I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked-for, and so novel. The shortness of the time, the unexpected nature of the event, the weakness... | |
| American literature - 1857 - 602 pages
...with which the glasses have so long deceived me, as well as many others, to whom I have shown them? I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked-for, and so novel. The shortness of the time, the unexpected nature of the event, the weakness... | |
| Charles Knight - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 528 pages
...as many others to whom I have showed them ? Now, perhaps, is the time come to revive the well nigh withered hopes of those who, guided by more profound...do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked-for, and so novel. The shortness of the time, the unexpected nature of the event, the weakness... | |
| 1877 - 730 pages
...manner of the solar spots ? Have they vanished or suddenly fled ? Has Saturn, perhaps, devoured his children ? Or were the appearances indeed illusion...observations, and demonstrated the utter impossibility of the existence of those things which the telescope appears to show. I do not know what to say in a case... | |
| English periodicals - 1877 - 564 pages
...manner of the solar spots ? Have they vanished or suddenly fled ? Has Saturn, perhaps, devoured his children ? Or were the appearances indeed illusion...observations, and demonstrated the utter impossibility of the existence of those things which the telescope appears to show. I do not know what to say in a case... | |
| Belgravia - 1877 - 696 pages
...manner of the solar spots ? Have they vanished or suddenly fled ? Has Saturn, perhaps, devoured his children ? Or were the appearances indeed illusion...observations, and demonstrated the utter impossibility of the existence of those things which the telescope appears to show. I do not know what to say in a case... | |
| Richard Anthony Proctor - Astrology - 1878 - 498 pages
...manner of the solar spots ? Have they vanished or suddenlyfled ? Has Saturn, perhaps, devoured his children ? Or were the appearances, indeed, illusion...observations, and demonstrated the utter impossibility of the existence of those things which the telescope appears to show. I do not know what to say in a case... | |
| Richard Anthony Proctor - Astronomy - 1886 - 400 pages
...demonstrated the utter impossibility of the existence of those things which the telescope appears to show. I do not know what to say in a case so surprising,...shortness of the time, the unexpected nature of the event, 1 It will be seen from Table X. of my treatise on Saturn that the ring disappeared on December 12,... | |
| George Frederick Chambers - Astronomical instruments - 1889 - 736 pages
...fraud, with which the glasses have so long deceived me, as well as many others to whom I have shewn them ? Now, perhaps, is the time come to revive the...novel. The shortness of the time, the unexpected nature • Opere di Galileo, vol. ii. p. 41 . Padua 1613, when of course Saturn would in ed., 1744. such a... | |
| Patrick Moore - Biography & Autobiography - 1994 - 270 pages
...which the glasses have so long deceived me, as well as many others to whom I have shown them ? . . . I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked-for, and so novel.' Later the secondary bodies appeared again, and began to look rather like... | |
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