 ... is no longer mere analogy which strikes us, no longer a general resemblance among them, as individuals independent of each other, and circulating about the sun, each according to its own peculiar nature, and connected with it by its own peculiar tie....  Outlines of Astronomy - Page 259by John Frederick William Herschel - 1861 - 557 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sir John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1833 - 444 pages
...nature, and connected with it by its own peculiar tie. The resemblance is now perceived to be a true family likeness ; they are bound up in one chain —...to one pervading influence, which extends from the center to the farthest limits of that great system, of which all of them, the earth included, must... | |
 | sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - 500 pages
...nature, and connected with it by its own peculiar tie. The resemblance is now perceived to be a true family likeness ; they are bound up in one chain —...to one pervading influence, which extends from the center to the farthest limits of that great system, of which all of them, the earth included, must... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1834 - 590 pages
...Saturn, — to which Sir W. Herschel added Uranus in 1781, — were all, as it were, of one family, ' bound up in one chain — interwoven in one web of...included, must henceforth be regarded as members.' Now as the intervals between the planetary orbits go on doubling, or nearly so, in proportion as they... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1834 - 600 pages
...Saturn, — to which Sir W. Herschel added Uranus in 1781, — were all, as it were, of one family, ' bound up in one chain — interwoven in one web of...included, must henceforth be regarded as members.' Now as the intervals between the planetary orbits go on doubling, or nearly so, in proportion as they... | |
 | 1834 - 596 pages
...close relationship by which they are held together. ' The ' resemblance is now perceived to be a true family likeness ; they ' are bound up in one chain, interwoven in one web of mutual ' relation and narmonious agreement, subjected to one pervading ' influence, which extends from the centre to the... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1835 - 414 pages
...nature, and connected with it by its own peculiar tie, The resemblance is now perceived to be a true family likeness ; they are bound up in one chain —...which all of them, the earth included, must henceforth he regarded as members. (418.) The laws of elliptic motion about the sun as a * The expression of this... | |
 | W. Paley - 1837 - 116 pages
...the constituents of the planetary system, " which (says Sir J. Herschel) is perceived to be a true family likeness; they are bound up in one chain—...pervading influence, which extends from the centre to tho farthest limits of the system." We shall take notice of only two other facts which are held to... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1842 - 820 pages
...nature, and connected with it by its own peculiar tie. Tho resemblance is now perceived to be a true family likeness ; they are bound up in one chain —...influence, which extends from the centre to the farthest limitsof that great system, of which all of them, the earth included, must henceforth be regarded as... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Australia - 1842 - 828 pages
...to one pervading influence, which extends from the centre to the farthest limitsof that greatsystem, of which all of them, the earth included, must henceforth be regarded as members."* * Treatise on Attronomy, 1833. The solar system, though composed of many different masses distant from... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Creation - 1844 - 402 pages
...resemblance is now perceived to be a true family likeness; they are bound up in one chain—interwoven in one web of mutual relation and harmonious agreement,...included, must henceforth be regarded as members."* Connecting what has been observed of the series of nebulous stars with this wonderful relationship... | |
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