| 1848 - 780 pages
..." it (the year) has done more ; it has given us the probable prospect of the discovery of another. We see it as Columbus saw America from the shores...far-reaching line of our analysis, with a certainty hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstration." It is true, that the way had by this time been well... | |
| Methodist Church - 1847 - 662 pages
..."We see it [the new planet] as Columbus saw America before leaving the coast of Spain. Its motions have been felt trembling along the far-reaching line of our analysis, with a certainty scarcely inferior to that of an ocular demonstration." Herschel remarks, that the calculations of Le... | |
| percy b. st. john - 1846 - 436 pages
...correctness of which Sir F. Herschel was so convinced, that' speaking of the indicated planet, he said' " We see it as Columbus saw America from the shores...far-reaching line of our analysis, with a certainty hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstration." This has at length been afforded. Mr. Hind recently... | |
| 1846 - 444 pages
...that' speaking of the indicated planet, he said' " We see it as Columbus saw America from the shores ot Spain. Its movements have been felt, trembling along...far-reaching line of our analysis, with a certainty hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstra'ion." This has at length been afforded. Mr. Hind recently... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1847 - 606 pages
...and adding, " It has done more, it has given us the probable prospect of the discovery of another. We see it as Columbus saw America from the shores...far-reaching line of our analysis, with a certainty hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstration." This striking paragraph, as subsequently explained,... | |
| Science - 1847 - 422 pages
...the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Southampton, in the following terms: — "We see it as Columbus saw America from the shores...far-reaching line of our analysis, with a certainty hardly inferior to ocular demonstration." Sept. 23, the astronomers of the Berlin Observatory, guided... | |
| 1847 - 548 pages
...and adding, " It has done more, it has given us the probable prospect of the discovery of another. We see it as Columbus saw America from the shores...far-reaching line of our analysis, with a certainty hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstration.'' This striking para190 191 graph, as subsequently... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1847 - 910 pages
...10th, to the British Association assembled at Southampton : — ' We see it [the probable new planet] as Columbus saw America from the shores of Spain....far-reaching line of our analysis, with a certainty hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstration.' And I am authorized by Professor Challis, in oral... | |
| Military art and science - 1847 - 516 pages
...— " It has done more: it has given us the probable prospect of another. We see it as Columbus enw America from the shores of Spain. Its movements have...far-reaching line of our analysis, with a certainty hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstration." And the same discussion led Professor Challis to... | |
| Robert Aspland - 1847 - 792 pages
...intellectual accomplishments and spirit heighten our ideas of human nature, Sir John Ilcrschcl — ' we saw it as Columbus saw America from the shores of Spain....been felt, trembling along the farreaching line of air analysis, with a certainty hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstration.' It appcurs that it... | |
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