 | sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - 500 pages
...among the stars ; and, when examined through powerful telescopes, is found (wonderful to relate ! ) to consist entirely of stars scattered by millions, like glittering dust, on the black ground of the general heavens. (254.) Another remarkable region in the heavens is the zodiac,... | |
 | Sir John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1833 - 444 pages
...among the stars ; and, when examined through powerful telescopes, is found (wonderful to relate ! ) to consist entirely of stars scattered by millions, like glittering dust, on. the black ground of the general heavens. (254.) Another remarkable region in the heavens is the zodiac,... | |
 | Frances Barbara Burton - 1837 - 202 pages
...(he adds further on), " when viewed " through powerful telescopes, is found (won" derfnl to relate), to consist entirely of stars, " scattered by millions, like glittering dust, on the " back-ground of the heavens." Three especial subjects of admiration present themselves in the regions... | |
 | T. H. Moody - Astrology - 1838 - 324 pages
...a zone two degrees in breadth, during a single hour's observation." He found this remarkable belt " to consist entirely of stars scattered by millions, like glittering dust, on the black ground of the general heavens. " Come forth, O man, yon azure round survey, And view those lamps,... | |
 | T. H. Croft MOODY - 1838 - 344 pages
...a zone two degrees in breadth, during a single hour's observation." He found this remarkable belt " to consist entirely of stars scattered by millions, like glittering dust, on the black ground of the general heavens. " Come forth, O man, yon azure round survey, And view those lamps,... | |
 | Thomas Lockerby - 1839 - 566 pages
...from horizon to horizon, when examined through powerful telescopes, is found (wonderful to relate) to consist entirely of stars, scattered by millions, like glittering dust on the black ground of the general heavens. When we speak of the comparative remoteness of certain regions... | |
 | 1840 - 430 pages
...Herschel reveals to us—even that " Milky Way," which, when examined, " is found (wonderful to relate 1) to consist entirely of stars scattered by millions, like glittering dust, on the black ground of the general heavens''—may be but a small portion of the universe. No wonder that... | |
 | 1844 - 858 pages
..." this remarkable belt, when examined through powerful telescopes, is found (wonderful to relate I) to consist entirely of stars scattered by millions, like glittering dust, on the black ground of the general heavens." ' In endeavouring to determine a ' sounding line,' as he calls... | |
 | B. Steill - 1845 - 250 pages
...technical language peculiar to an art or science, such as a chemical or mineralogical nomenclature. NON CONDUC'TORS, in Electricity, are those substances...visible as faint cloudy patches of light. There are some NOSES, the seventh days of the months of March, May, July, and October, and the fifth of the other... | |
 | John Lee COMSTOCK (and HOBLYN (Richard Dennis)), John Lee COMSTOCK - 1846 - 506 pages
...situation among the stars; and, when examined through powerful telescopes, is found (wonderful to relate) to consist entirely of stars scattered by millions, like glittering dust, on the black ground of the general heavens. three months, till it becomes completely invisible, in which state... | |
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This remarkable belt has maintained, from the earliest ages, the same relative situation among the stars ; and, when examined through powerful telescopes, is found (wonderful to relate ! ) to consist entirely of stars scattered by millions, like glittering... 
