 | John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1849 - 672 pages
...in full sunshine. I have frequently compared the moon getting behind the grey perpendicular facade of the Table Mountain, illuminated by the sun just...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... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - Science - 1896 - 758 pages
...in full sunshine. I have frequently compared the Moon setting behind the gray perpendicular facade of the Table Mountain, illuminated by the Sun just...it has scarcely been distinguishable in brightness [the italics in both cases are mine] from the rock in contact with it." His remarks, therefore, appear... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1857 - 650 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1857 - 656 pages
...in full sunshine. I have frequently compared the moon setting behind the grey perpendicular facade of the Table Mountain, illuminated by the sun just...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... | |
 | Physics - 1857 - 1142 pages
...in full sunshine. I have frequently compared the moon setting behind the grey perpendicular facade of the Table Mountain, illuminated by the sun just...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 - 1857 - 608 pages
...the moon setting behind the grey perpendicular facade of the Table Mountain, illuminated by the mm just risen 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... | |
 | sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - Astronomy - 1858 - 790 pages
...the sun just risen in (he opposite quarter of the horizon, when it has scarcely been di; tinguMiable in brightness from the rock in contact with it. The...altitudes and the atmosphere perfectly free from cloud or vapour, its effect is alike on both luminaries. ( H. 1848.) reason of its greater apparent size*, is... | |
 | Charles W. Vincent, James Mason - Science - 1858 - 364 pages
...in full sunshine. I have frequently compared the moon setting behind the grey perpendicular facade of the Table Mountain, illuminated by the sun just...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 - 1861 - 572 pages
...compared the moon setting behind the grey perpendicular fagade 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 contact with it. The sun and moon being... | |
 | sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - Astronomy - 1864 - 790 pages
...in full sunshine. I have frequently compared the moon setting behind the grey perpendicular fafadc of the Table Mountain, illuminated by the sun just...brightness from the rock in contact with it. The sun imd moon being nearly at equal altitudes nnd the atmosphere perfectly free from cloud or vapour, its... | |
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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 contact with it. The sun and moon being nearly at equal altitudes, and the atmosphere perfectly... 
