| 1848 - 780 páginas
...year) has done more ; it has given us the probable prospect of the discovery of another. We see it as Columbus saw America from the shores of Spain....hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstration." It is true, that the way had by this time been well paved for the majestic approach of the new planet,... | |
| 1847 - 662 páginas
..."We see it [the new planet] as Columbus saw America before leaving the coast of Spain. Its motions have been felt trembling along the far-reaching line of our analysis, with a certainty scarcely inferior to that of an ocular demonstration." Herschel remarks, that the calculations of Le... | |
| percy b. st. john - 1846 - 436 páginas
...which Sir F. Herschel was so convinced, that' speaking of the indicated planet, he said' " We see it as Columbus saw America from the shores of Spain....hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstration." This has at length been afforded. Mr. Hind recently announced in the Times that he had received a letter... | |
| 1846 - 444 páginas
...that' speaking of the indicated planet, he said' " We see it as Columbus saw America from the shores ot Spain. Its movements have been felt, trembling along...with a certainty hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstra'ion." This has at length been afforded. Mr. Hind recently announced in the Times that he... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1847 - 910 páginas
...sentence in Sir J. Herschel's address, on September the 10th, to the British Association assembled at Southampton : — ' We see it [the probable new...hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstration.' And I am authorized by Professor Challis, in oral conversation, to state that the same expressions... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1847 - 606 páginas
...adding, " It has done more, it has given us the probable prospect of the discovery of another. We see it as Columbus saw America from the shores of Spain....hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstration." This striking paragraph, as subsequently explained, had a twofold reference to the calculations of... | |
| 1847 - 548 páginas
...adding, " It has done more, it has given us the probable prospect of the discovery of another. We see it as Columbus saw America from the shores of Spain....hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstration.'' This striking para190 191 graph, as subsequently explained, had a twofold reference to the calculations... | |
| 1847 - 516 páginas
...— " It has done more: it has given us the probable prospect of another. We see it as Columbus enw America from the shores of Spain. Its movements have...hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstration." And the same discussion led Professor Challis to contemplate a search for the suspected dinhirber,... | |
| 1847 - 422 páginas
...British Association for the Advancement of Science at Southampton, in the following terms: — "We see it as Columbus saw America from the shores of Spain....our analysis, with a certainty hardly inferior to ocular demonstration." Sept. 23, the astronomers of the Berlin Observatory, guided by the conclusions... | |
| Robert Aspland - 1847 - 792 páginas
...intellectual accomplishments and spirit heighten our ideas of human nature, Sir John Ilcrschcl — ' we saw it as Columbus saw America from the shores of Spain....been felt, trembling along the farreaching line of air analysis, with a certainty hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstration.' It appcurs that it... | |
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