We see it as Columbus saw America from the shores of Spain. Its movements have been felt, trembling along the far-reaching line of our analysis, with a certainty hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstration. Fourteen Weeks in Descriptive Astronomy - Page 186by Joel Dorman Steele - 1874 - 336 pagesFull view - About this book
| Agnes Mary Clerke - Astronomy - 1893 - 614 pages
...Association respecting the hypothetical new planet : " We see it as Columbus saw America from the coast of Spain. Its movements have been felt, trembling...far-reaching line of our analysis with a certainty hardly inferior to that of occular demonstration." Less than a fortnight later, September 23, Professor... | |
| 1893 - 794 pages
...prospect of the discovery of another. We feel it trembling along the far-reaching line of our analysis. We see it as Columbus saw America from the shores of Spain.' That was the expression used by a very conspicuous man. I think it was sufficiently remarkable to deserve... | |
| Agnes Mary Clerke - Astronomy - 1895 - 242 pages
...10, 1846, he spoke with full assurance of the still undiscovered body. " We see it," he declared, " 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." Within a fortnight, Neptune, through Le Verrier's... | |
| Astronomy - 1896 - 502 pages
...the probable prospect of the discovery of a planet beyond Uranus, which he says would then be seen " 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." At that time Challis was still searching for the... | |
| Astronomy - 1896 - 490 pages
...the probable prospect of the discovery of a planet beyond Uranus, which he says would then be seen " 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." At that time Challis was still searching for the... | |
| Herbert Alonzo Howe - Astronomy - 1897 - 390 pages
...public address, said concerning the unknown body: "We see it as Columbus saw America from the coast of Spain. Its movements have been felt, trembling...far-reaching line of our analysis, with a certainty hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstration." Three times Challis observed the planet, but did... | |
| Astronomy - 1900 - 632 pages
...unknown. Sir John Herschel wrote of the new planet a few weeks before its discovery in memorable words: "We see it as Columbus saw America from the shores...far-reaching line of our analysis with a certainty hardly inferior to ocular demonstration." The extraordinarily complex problem of inverse perturbations... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - World history - 1905 - 424 pages
...new [minor] planet Astraea; it has done more — it has given us the probable prospect of another. We see it as Columbus saw America from the shores...farreaching line of our analysis with a certainty hardly inferior to ocular demonstration." It was nearly time to begin to look for it. So the astronomerroyal... | |
| Benjamin F. Loomis - Astrology - 1905 - 408 pages
...Early in September, 1846, the new planet had fairly been grappled. We find Sir John Herschel remarking, "We see it as Columbus saw America from the shores...Spain. Its movements have been felt trembling along the far reaching line of our analysis with a certainty hardly inferior to ocular demonstration." On the... | |
| Astronomy - 1906 - 500 pages
...study of Uranus ? The phrase " To feel from world to world " reminds us of Sir John Herschel's words, " Its movements have been felt trembling along the farreaching line of our analysis" ; and perhaps this actual phrase may have been in some way responsible for Mr. Maekie's mistake —... | |
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