There, for the next two or three hours, we witnessed a spectacle which can never fade from my memory. The shooting stars gradually increased in number until sometimes several were seen at once. The Story of the Heavens - Page 338by Robert Stawell Ball - 1885 - 551 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Ambrose Spicer - Bible - 1917 - 390 pages
...Lord Rosse went out upon the wall of the observatory housing Lord Rosse's great reflecting telescope: "There, for the next two or three hours, we witnessed...number until sometimes several were seen at once." — "Story of the Heavens," p. 380. Grand as the spectacle was, it was but a reminder, apparently,... | |
| William Ambrose Spicer - Bible - 1918 - 392 pages
...Lord Rosse went out upon the wall of the observatory housing Lord Rosse's great reflecting telescope: "There, for the next two or three hours, we witnessed...number until sometimes several were seen at once." — "Story of the Heavens," p. 380. Grand as the spectacle was, it was but a reminder, apparently,... | |
| Mary Proctor - Comets - 1926 - 262 pages
...our observations of the nebula? and ascend to the top of the wall of the great telescope, from whence a clear view of the whole hemisphere of the heavens could be obtained. There, for the next three or four hours, we witnessed a spectacle which can never fade from my memory. The shooting stars... | |
| J Roche - Science - 1990 - 418 pages
...cease our observations of the nebulae and ascend to the top of the wall of the great telescope whence a clear view of the whole hemisphere of the heavens...once. Sometimes they swept over our heads, sometimes from the east. As the night wore on, the constellation Leo ascended above the horizon, and then the... | |
| Mark Littmann - Nature - 1999 - 364 pages
...decided to cease our observations of the nebulae and ascend to the top of the wall of the great telescope from which a clear view of the whole hemisphere of...shooting stars gradually increased in number until Earl of Rosse's 72-inch (1.8-meter) telescope at Birr Castle, Ireland Robert S. Ball: The Story of... | |
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