 | James Gordon Gilkey - 1928 - 232 síður
...these speculations continued. One astronomer, discussing the yet undiscovered star, wrote in 1846: "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."... | |
 | Joseph Franklin Marsh - 1928 - 264 síður
...to an association of astronomers that they were on the eve of the discovery of a world. He said : " 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 sight." A few days later a French... | |
 | William Marshall Smart - 1928 - 354 síður
...went on to say : "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...Its movements have been felt, trembling along the far-reaching line of our analysis, with a certainty hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstration."... | |
 | 1846 - 604 síður
...September 10, to the British Association assembled at Southampton. " We see it [the probable new planet] 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 that of ocular demonstration*."... | |
 | John Read - 1995 - 260 síður
...words of Sir John Herschel, referring to the still unseen planet, Neptune) we see the organic molecule '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 Onward... | |
 | Sara Maitland - 1996 - 356 síður
...France in the 1 950s. The organism is still alive and well. The Eighth Planet We see the eighth planet as Columbus saw America from the shores of Spain....our analysis, with a certainty hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstration. John Henchtl, President of the British Association, son of William Herschel,... | |
 | Minoru Fukui - 2003 - 882 síður
...Herschel appears to have thought so. Speaking of the postulated planet in early September 1 846, he said: 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. (Ibid.,... | |
 | Timothy Ferris - 2003 - 404 síður
...astronomer John Herschel wrote in a letter that was to be published that fall, "We see it [the new planet] 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 that of ocular demonstration."23... | |
 | 1912 - 882 síður
...at Southampton in 1846: "The past year has given us. ... the probable 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." When... | |
 | 576 síður
...planet, he added: "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...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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We see 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 that of ocular demonstration. 
