 Ingens macula in sole conspiciebatur, cujus diam eter = ^o diam. solis. uniformly bright. Its ground is finely mottled with an appearance of minute, dark dots, or pores, which, when attentively watched, are found to be in a constant state of change. There...  Outlines of Astronomy - Page 204by John Frederick William Herschel - 1861 - 557 pagesFull view - About this book
 | sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - 500 pages
...corroborate this view of the subject. The part of the sun's disc not occupied by spots is far from uniformly bright. Its ground is finely mottled with...change. There is nothing which represents so faithfully tliis appearance as the slow subsidence of some flocculent chemical precipitates in a transparent fluid,... | |
 | 1834 - 596 pages
...the sun also confirms this opinion. ' The part of the sun's disc not occupied by spots is far from uniformly bright. Its ground is finely mottled with...transparent fluid, when viewed perpendicularly from above j so faithfully, indeed, that it is hardly possible not to be impressed with the idea of a luminous... | |
 | Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - Astronomy - 1838 - 350 pages
...days, 9 hours, and 35 minutes,} The part of the sun's disc not occupied by spots, is far from bemg uniformly bright. Its ground is finely mottled with an appearance of minute, dark dots, or fores, which, Illustrate these phenomenaby diagrams. "What conclusions have been_drawn lrom these phenomena... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1842 - 1162 pages
...not uniformly bright ' The ground is finely mottled,' to use the words of the observer just quoted, ' with an appearance of minute dark dots, or pores,...faithfully this appearance as the slow subsidence SUN 231 SUN of some flocculent chemical precipitates in a transparent fluid, when viewed perpendicularly... | |
 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1842 - 536 pages
...mottled,' to use the word» of the observer just quoted, ' with an appearance of minute dark/ķpU, от pores, which, when attentively watched, are found...faithfully this appearance as the slow subsidence SUN 281 SUN of some flocculent chemical precipitates in a transparent fluid, when viewed perpendicularly... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1842 - 1046 pages
...not uniformly bright ' The ground is finely mottled,' to use the words of the observer just quoted, ' with an appearance of minute dark dots, or pores,...attentively watched, are found to be in a constant stale of change. There is nothing which represents so faithfully this appearance as the slow subsidence... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1842 - 538 pages
...uniformly bright. ' The ground is finely mottled,' to use the words of the observer just quoted, ' with an appearance of minute dark dots, or pores, which, when attentively watched, are found tobe in a constant state of change. There is nothing which represents so faithfully this appearance... | |
 | Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - Astronomy - 1843 - 344 pages
...days, 9 hours, and 35 minutes. The part of the sun's disc not occupied by spots, is far from being uniformly bright. Its ground is finely mottled with...Appearance of minute, dark dots, or pores, which, attentively watched, are found to be in a constant state of change. What the physical organization... | |
 | Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - Astronomy - 1848 - 302 pages
...Herschel offers the following : " That part of the sun's disc not occupied by spots, is far from being uniformly bright. Its ground is finely mottled with...watched, are found to be in a constant state of change." This statement, until recently, was understood to mean, that the mottling of the sun was seen to change... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1855 - 396 pages
...surface is broken up into mountainous masses of light, of great height. Sir John Herschel says, that its ground is finely mottled with an appearance of...watched, are found to be in a constant state of change. What words could be better descriptive of the appearance the dark body of the sun would probably present... | |
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