The Quarterly Review, Volume 50William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1834 |
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... seen before . Some stars are double and even triple ; that is to say , they appear to us within a barely distinguishable distance of each other . Upwards of three thousand double stars have been already discovered , and it is justly ...
... seen before . Some stars are double and even triple ; that is to say , they appear to us within a barely distinguishable distance of each other . Upwards of three thousand double stars have been already discovered , and it is justly ...
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... Seen through a telescope of inferior power , they appear like companion butterflies fluttering in the sky ; in one of medium power they become well- defined objects . Sir W. Herschel says , that the striking difference in the colour of ...
... Seen through a telescope of inferior power , they appear like companion butterflies fluttering in the sky ; in one of medium power they become well- defined objects . Sir W. Herschel says , that the striking difference in the colour of ...
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... seen through a telescope of moderate power , we imagine that a half - crown piece would cover . * But an individual gazing through a similar instrument from a planet of Sirius at our sun , might suppose , in the same manner , that he ...
... seen through a telescope of moderate power , we imagine that a half - crown piece would cover . * But an individual gazing through a similar instrument from a planet of Sirius at our sun , might suppose , in the same manner , that he ...
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... seen in the firmament . nature - who , from his familiar acquaintance with the aspect of the heavens , had been led to notice , among so many thousand stars , this one , as distinguished from the rest by its variation , and had ...
... seen in the firmament . nature - who , from his familiar acquaintance with the aspect of the heavens , had been led to notice , among so many thousand stars , this one , as distinguished from the rest by its variation , and had ...
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... seen before . It shone in the constellation Cassiopeia , was then as bright as Sirius , and for a while was visible even at mid - day . It began to fade in December of the same year , and after exhibiting all the changes of ...
... seen before . It shone in the constellation Cassiopeia , was then as bright as Sirius , and for a while was visible even at mid - day . It began to fade in December of the same year , and after exhibiting all the changes of ...
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