Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Band 38

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Priestley and Weale, 1878
Includes lists of additions to the Society's library, usually separately paged.
 

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Seite 142 - And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day...
Seite 147 - Some account of the Art of Photogenic Drawing ; or, the process by which natural objects may be made to delineate themselves without the aid of the artist's pencil," which was published in the Proceedings and also in the Philosophical Magazine for 1839.
Seite 212 - The author of this practical little book is to be congratulated on the successful manner in which he has treated so important a subject.
Seite 147 - And this led me to reflect on the inimitable beauty of the pictures of Nature's painting which the glass lens of the Camera throws upon the paper in its focus — fairy pictures, creations of a moment, and destined as rapidly to fade away.
Seite 199 - From purely theoretical considerations derived from terrestrial chemistry and the nebular hypothesis, the presence of oxygen in the sun might have been strongly suspected, for this element is currently stated to form eight-ninths of the water of the globe, one-third of the crust of the earth, and one-fifth of the air, and should therefore probably be a large constituent of every member of the solar system. On the other hand, the discovery of oxygen, and probably other non-metals, in the sun, gives...
Seite 108 - As the brightness was still further reduced the ends of the bright line disappeared, and the last phase was a tiny faint blur. These observations were quite independent, and Mr. Maunder had, in fact, no knowledge of my results. ' Suspected Repetition, or Second Outbursts from Radiant Points ; and on the Long Duration of Meteor Showers.
Seite 204 - I found a faint object on the following side and a little north of the planet, which afterward proved to be the outer satellite. I had hardly time to secure an observation of its position when fog from the Potomac River stopped the work.
Seite 204 - It would appear on different sides of the planet in the same night, and at first I thought there were two or three inner moons, since it seemed very improbable to me, at that time, that a satellite should revolve around its primary in less time than that in which the primary rotates. To settle this point I watched this moon throughout the nights of August 20 and 21, and saw that there was, in fact, but one inner moon, which made its revolution around the primary in less than onethird the time of...
Seite 161 - I cannot attempt to convey to you the impression which was made on me by the author's undoubting confidence in the general truth of his theory, by the calmness and clearness with which he limited the field of observation, and by the firmness with which he proclaimed to observing astronomers, " Look in the place which I have indicated, and you will see the planet well.

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