The Universe and the Coming Transits: Presenting Researches Into and New Views Respecting the Constitution of the Heavens: Together with an Investigation of the Conditions of the Coming Transits of Venus ...Longmans, Green, and Company, 1874 - 303 páginas |
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... matter to show at least a probability against the supposition that the milky light in the spot is removed at a vast distance behind the stars of the seventh magnitude seen in the same field . The supposition amounts , in fact , to the ...
... matter to show at least a probability against the supposition that the milky light in the spot is removed at a vast distance behind the stars of the seventh magnitude seen in the same field . The supposition amounts , in fact , to the ...
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... matter other than stars or suns , and even differing perhaps from any forms of matter with which we are acquainted . Unfortunately we have no means of modifying the con- ditions of the problem presented to us by the stars . We must be ...
... matter other than stars or suns , and even differing perhaps from any forms of matter with which we are acquainted . Unfortunately we have no means of modifying the con- ditions of the problem presented to us by the stars . We must be ...
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... down to the fifth magnitude inclusive , if these were really spread at random over the celestial sphere . In another of these essays I have indicated the means whereby I have tested this matter , and the conclusion to 22 THE UNIVERSE .
... down to the fifth magnitude inclusive , if these were really spread at random over the celestial sphere . In another of these essays I have indicated the means whereby I have tested this matter , and the conclusion to 22 THE UNIVERSE .
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... matter , and the conclusion to which I have been led - this namely , that although among 1,500 or 2,000 points distributed at random over a surface of any kind , certain groups resembling streams might be recog- nised , such streams ...
... matter , and the conclusion to which I have been led - this namely , that although among 1,500 or 2,000 points distributed at random over a surface of any kind , certain groups resembling streams might be recog- nised , such streams ...
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... interplanetary spaces , so far from being looked upon as untenanted , save by an occasional wandering comet , must be considered as crowded with various forms of cosmical matter . I would not be understood as using the 54 THE UNIVERSE .
... interplanetary spaces , so far from being looked upon as untenanted , save by an occasional wandering comet , must be considered as crowded with various forms of cosmical matter . I would not be understood as using the 54 THE UNIVERSE .
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