 | John Lauris Blake - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1834 - 1028 pages
...their being resolvable into stars. ' It is very probable that the great stratum called the milky-way, is that in which the sun is placed, though perhaps not in the very centre of its thickness. We gather this from the appearance of tho galaxy, Which seems to encompass... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1835 - 630 pages
...particular cluster in which our sun is placed. In a paper on the construction of the heavens, doctor Herschel says, it is very probable, that the great...branches from it. Such a supposition will satisfactorily, ami with great simplicity, account for all the phenomena of the Milky Way, which, according to this... | |
 | 1836 - 496 pages
...Milky-Way, consists of fixed stars too small to be seen by the naked eye. In a paper on the construction of the heavens, Dr. Herschel says, " It is very probable, that the great stratum called the MilkyWay, is that in which the Sun is placed, though perhaps not in the centre of its thickness, but... | |
 | James Smith (author of the Panorama of science and art.) - Industrial arts - 1859 - 964 pages
...being resolvable into stars. " It is very probable that the great stratum called the milky and nebula?. way, is that in which the sun is placed, though perhaps not in the very centre of its thickness. We gather this from the appearance of the galaxy, which seems to encompass... | |
 | Popular encyclopedia - 1879 - 530 pages
...that particular cluster in which our sun is placed. In a paper on the construction of the heavens, Herschel says it is very probable that the great stratum called the MUky Way is that in which the sun is placed, though perhaps not in the centre of its thickness, but... | |
 | Simon Newcomb, Edward Singleton Holden - Astronomy - 1880 - 542 pages
...resolved the whole whitish appearance into small stars. This conclusion he subsequently modified. He says : " It is very probable that the great stratum...which the sun is placed, though perhaps not in the very centre of its thickness. " We gather this from the appearance of the Galaxy, -which seems to encompass... | |
 | Edward Singleton Holden - Astonomers - 1880 - 256 pages
...resolved the whole whitish appearance into small stars. This conclusion he subsequently modified. He says : " It is very probable that the great stratum...which the sun is placed, though perhaps not in the very centre of its thickness. " We gather this from the appearance of the Galaxy, which seems to encompass... | |
 | Simon Newcomb, Edward Singleton Holden - Astronomy - 1881 - 544 pages
...resolved the whole whitish appearance into small stars. This conclusion he subsequently modified. He says : " It is very probable that the great stratum...which the sun is placed, though perhaps not in the very centre of its thickness. " We gather this from the appearance of the Galaxy, which seems to encompass... | |
 | Michael J. Crowe - Science - 1994 - 468 pages
...minutely into such circumstances, therefore I proceed with the subject of nebulous and sidereal strata. It is very probable, that the great stratum, called...which the sun is placed, though perhaps not in the very center of its thickness. We gather this from the appearance of the Galaxy, which seems to encompass... | |
 | Mark Pendergrast - Science - 2009 - 448 pages
...of individual stars, clustered in various arrangements. "It is very probable," he concluded in 1784, "that the great stratum, called the Milky Way, is...which the sun is placed, though perhaps not in the very centre of its thickness." He described our galaxy as a "very extensive, branching, compound Congeries... | |
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It is very probable that the great stratum called the milky way, is that in which the sun is placed, though perhaps not in the very centre of its thickness. 
