Were it not for the reflective and scattering power of the atmosphere, no objects would be visible to us out of direct sunshine; every shadow of a passing cloud would be pitchy darkness ; the stars would be visible all day, and every apartment, into which... The Story of the Stars: New Descriptive Astronomy - Page 117by Joel Dorman Steele - 1884 - 326 pagesFull view - About this book
| sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - 500 pages
...ay the twilight. Were it not for the reflective and scattering power of the atmosphere, no objects would be visible to us out of direct sunshine ; every...pitchy darkness ; the stars would be visible all day, and every apartment, into which the sun had not direct admission, would be involved in nocturnal obscurity.... | |
| Sir John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1833 - 444 pages
...as the twilight. Were it not for the reflective and scattering power of the atmosphere, no objects would be visible to us out of direct sunshine; every...pitchy darkness ; the stars would be visible all day, and every apartment, into which the sun had not direct admission, would be involved in nocturnal obscurity.... | |
| 1833 - 468 pages
...OF AIR ON LIGHT. WERE it not for the reflective and scattering power of the atmosphere, no objects would be visible to us out of direct sunshine; every...pitchy darkness; the stars would be visible all day; and every apartment, into which the sun had not direct admission, would be involved inr nocturnal obscurity.... | |
| William Prout - Chemistry - 1834 - 618 pages
...not," says Sir J. Herschel, " for the reflecting and scattering power of the atmosphere, no objects would be visible to us out of direct sunshine, every...shadow of a passing cloud would be pitchy darkness; the stare would be visible all day, and every apartment into which the sun had not direct admission would... | |
| Thomas Chalmers - Human beings - 1836 - 572 pages
...not," says Sir J. Herschel, " for the reflecting and scattering power of the atmosphere, no objects would be visible to us out of direct sunshine, every...pitchy darkness ; the stars would be visible all day, and every apartment into which the sun had not direct admission would be involved in' nocturnal obscurity."... | |
| Natural theology - 1836 - 300 pages
...not," says Sir J. Herschel, " for the reflecting and scattering power of the atmosphere, no objects would be visible to us out of direct sunshine, every...pitchy darkness ; the' stars would be visible all day, and every apartment into which the sun had not direct admission would be involved in nocturnal obscurity."... | |
| Denison Olmsted - Astronomy - 1839 - 300 pages
...the atmosphere has of dispersing the solar light, and scattering it in various directions, no objects would be visible to us out of direct sunshine ; every...pitchy darkness ; the stars would be visible all day, and every apartment into -which the sun had not direct admission, would be involved in the obscurity... | |
| Denison Olmsted - Astronomy - 1839 - 308 pages
...the atmosphere has of dispersing the solar light, and scattering it in various directions, no objects would be visible to us out of direct sunshine ; every...pitchy darkness ; the stars would be visible all day, and every apartment into which the sun had not direct admission, would be involved in the obscurity... | |
| 1840 - 430 pages
...twilight. Were it not for the reflective and scattering power of the atmosphere, no objects would bo visible to us out of direct sunshine; every shadow of a passing cloud would be pitchy darkness; (he stars would tx vitiblt ail day t and every apartment, into which the sun had not direct admission,... | |
| Denison Olmsted - Astronomy - 1841 - 486 pages
...the atmosphere has of dispersing the solar light, and scattering it in various directions, no objects would be visible to us out of direct sunshine ; every shadow of a passing cloud would involve us in midnight darkness ; the stars would be visible all day ; and every apartment into which... | |
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