 | John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1849 - 672 pages
...weathered sandstone rock in full sunshine. I have frequently compared the moon getting behind the grey perpendicular facade of the Table Mountain, illuminated...in the opposite quarter of the horizon, when it has been scarcely distinguishable in brightness from the rock in contact with it. The sun and moon being... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1851 - 706 pages
...• The actual illumination of the lunar surface is not much superior to that of weathered sandstone rock in full sunshine. I have frequently compared the moon setting behind the grey perpendicular fa9ade of the Table Mountain, illuminated by the sun just risen in the opposite... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1857 - 656 pages
..." The actual illumination of the lunar surface is not much superior to that of weathered sandstone rock in full sunshine. I have frequently compared the moon setting behind the grey perpendicular facade of the Table Mountain, illuminated by the sun just risen in the opposite... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1857 - 650 pages
..." The actual illumination of the lunar surface is not much superior to that of weathered sandstone rock in full sunshine. I have frequently compared the moon setting behind the grey perpendicular fa£ade of the Table Mountain, illuminated by the sun just risen in the opposite... | |
 | Physics - 1857 - 1142 pages
..." The actual illumination of the lunar surface is not much superior to that of weathered sandstone rock in full sunshine. I have frequently compared the moon setting behind the grey perpendicular facade of the Table Mountain, illuminated by the sun just risen in the opposite... | |
 | Charles W. Vincent, James Mason - Science - 1858 - 364 pages
...'' The actual illumination of the lunar surface is not much superior to that of weathered sandstone rock in full sunshine. I have frequently compared the moon setting behind the grey perpendicular facade of the Table Mountain, illuminated by the sun just risen in the opposite... | |
 | Astronomy - 1863 - 530 pages
..." The actual illumination of the lunar surface is not much superior to that of weathered sandstone rock in full sunshine. I have frequently compared the Moon, setting behind the gray, perpendicular façade of the Table Mountain, illuminated by the Sun just risen in the opposite quarter of the horizon,... | |
 | Astronomy - 1867 - 346 pages
...— "The actual illumination of the lunar surface is not much superior to that of weathered sandstone rock in full sunshine.. I have frequently compared the moon setting behind the grey perpendicular fajade of the Table Mountain, illuminated by the sun just risen in the opposite... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1869 - 590 pages
...1 The aclnal illumination of the lunar surface is not much superior to that of weathered sandstone rock in full sunshine. I have frequently compared the moon setting behind ihe grey perpendicular facade of the Table Mountain, illuminated by the sun just risen in the opposite... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1891 - 610 pages
...weathered sandstone-rock in full sunshine. I have frequently compared the moon eettiug behind the grey perpendicular facade of the Table Mountain, illuminated...risen in the opposite quarter of the horizon, when it him been t'arcely distinguishable in brightness from the rock in contact u-ith it." The words which... | |
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I have frequently compared the moon setting behind the grey perpendicular facade of the Table Mountain, illuminated by the sun just risen in the opposite quarter of the horizon, when it has been scarcely distinguishable in brightness from the rock in... 