The part of the sun's disc not occupied by spots is far from 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 is nothing... Outlines of Astronomy - Page 204by John Frederick William Herschel - 1869 - 753 pagesFull view - About this book
| Sir John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1833 - 444 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...viewed perpendicularly from above: so faithfully, indeed, that it is hardly possible not to be impressed with the idea of a luminous medium intermixed,... | |
| 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/ípU, 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 - 546 pages
...stale of ebang*. There is nothing wh»»j -rpreseots so faithfully tbis appvarance as tbt slow I * of some flocculent chemical precipitates in a transparent...when viewed perpendicularly from above; so faithfully indeed, that it is hardly possible not to be impressed with the idea of a luminous medium intermixed,... | |
| 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... | |
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