| H. Griffith - Apologetics - 1882 - 184 pages
...words : ' It has done more; it has given us the probable prospect of the discovery of another (planet). We see it, as Columbus saw America from the shores of Spain. Its movements have been felt along the far reaching line of our analysis, with a certainty hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstration.'... | |
| Joseph Norman Lockyer, Sir Norman Lockyer - Astronomy - 1883 - 462 pages
...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...far-reaching line of our analysis with a certainty hardly inferior to ocular demonstration." On the 29th July, 1846, the large telescope of the Cambridge... | |
| Robert Stawell Ball - Astronomy - 1885 - 612 pages
...to us the new planet Astraa — it has done more, it has given us the probable prospect of another. 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 time of the discovery was now rapidly approaching. On... | |
| Robert Perceval Graves - Mathematicians - 1885 - 754 pages
...Herschel said at the Southampton Meeting, before human eye had consciously beheld that distant wanderer, " We see it as Columbus saw America from the shores of Spain," that the name of the great discoverer of the western world should be now, in figure, applied. What... | |
| American periodicals - 1886 - 860 pages
...referring to this hypothetical new planet, said: "We see it as Columbus saw America from the coast of Spain. Its movements have been felt trembling along...far-reaching line of our analysis with a certainty hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstration." The ocular demonstration was added to the anticipatory... | |
| George Frederick Chambers - Astronomical instruments - 1889 - 758 pages
...Astrsea — " 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 d." The Map was eventually got ready, but it was not... | |
| University of Toronto. Mathematical and Physical Society - Science - 1891 - 136 pages
...asteroids.) 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...trembling along the far-reaching line of our analysis." The search was successful at the Berlin observatory. Galle, Encke's assistant, directed the great telescope... | |
| Royal Astronomical Society - Astronomy - 1893 - 594 pages
...the words — " 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." To justify the confidence which these words express,... | |
| Royal Astronomical Society - Astronomy - 1893 - 586 pages
...the words — " 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." To justify the confidence which these words express,... | |
| William Minto - Logic - 1893 - 420 pages
...prospect of it in language that strikingly expresses the power of the method. "We see it," he said, " 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." l Many of the new elements in Chemistry have been... | |
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