| Rossiter Johnson - 1905 - 424 síður
...new [minor] planet Astraea; it has done more — it has given us the probable prospect of another. We see it as Columbus saw America from the shores...Spain. Its movements have been felt trembling along the farreaching line of our analysis with a certainty hardly inferior to ocular demonstration." It was... | |
| Carl Snyder - 1907 - 512 síður
...has given to us a new asteroid ; it has done more — it has given us the prospect of another planet. We see it as Columbus saw America from the shores...Its movements have been felt, trembling along the far-reaching line of our analysis with a certainty hardly inferior to ocular demonstration." The discovery... | |
| Carl Snyder - 1907 - 516 síður
...Sir John Herschel, in an address before the British Association, had very beautifully observed : — it as Columbus saw America from the shores of Spain....Its movements have been felt, trembling along the far-reaching line of our analysis with a certainty hardly inferior to ocular demonstration." The discovery... | |
| Carl Snyder - 1907 - 520 síður
...Sir John Herschel, in an address before the British Association, had very beautifully observed : — it as Columbus saw America from the shores of Spain....Its movements have been felt, trembling along the far-reaching line of our analysis with a certainty hardly inferior to ocular demonstration." The discovery... | |
| Carl Snyder - 1907 - 520 síður
...Sir John Herschel, in an address before the British Association, had very beautifully observed :— it as Columbus saw America from the shores of Spain....Its movements have been felt, trembling along the far-reaching line of our analysis with a certainty hardly inferior to ocular demonstration." The discovery... | |
| 1908 - 500 síður
...perturbations produced by an unknown planet ou the motions of Uranus, so that, as he expressed it, " we see it as Columbus saw America from the shores...its movements have been felt, trembling along the far-reaching line of our analysis with a certainty hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstration."... | |
| 1908 - 506 síður
...perturbations produced by an unknown planet on the motions of Uranus, so that, as he expressed it, " we see it as Columbus saw America from the shores...its movements have been felt, trembling along the far-reaching line of our analysis with a certainty hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstration."... | |
| Sir Richard Gregory - 1916 - 382 síður
...1846, Sir John Herschel, son of Sir William Herschel, said : " We see it [the probable new planet] as Columbus saw America from the shores of Spain. Its movements have been felt trembling along the farreaching line of our analysis with a certainty hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstration."... | |
| John Paul - 1918 - 200 síður
...the gravitative influence of another planet yet undiscovered. Before its discovery, Herschell wrote: "We see it as Columbus saw America from the shores...far reaching line of our analysis with a certainty not far inferior to ocular demonstration." They tell us that in 1846 a scientist in Prance announced... | |
| Henry Sloane Coffin - 1926 - 202 síður
...and size. In 1846 Sir John Herschell wrote of this mysterious body, unknown save for its effects : "We see it as Columbus saw America from the shores...Spain. Its movements have been felt trembling along the far-reaching line of our analysis with a certainty hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstration."... | |
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