 The intense lustre of its illuminated part dazzles the sight, and exaggerates every imperfection of the telescope; yet we see clearly that its surface is not mottled over with permanent spots like the Moon; we notice in it neither mountains nor shadows,...  The Observatory - Seite 631906Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Sir John Frederick William Herschel - 1833 - 444 Seiten
...it neither mountains nor shadows, but a uniform brightness, in which sometimes we may, indeed, fancy obscurer portions, but can seldom or never rest fully satisfied of the fact. It is from some observations of this kind that both Venus and Mercury have been concluded to revolve... | |
 | sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - 500 Seiten
...it neither mountains nor shadows, but a uniform brightness, in which sometimes we may, indeed, fancy obscurer portions, but can seldom or never rest fully satisfied of the fact. It is from some observations of this kind that both Venus and Mercury have been concluded to revolve... | |
 | 1834 - 596 Seiten
...neither mountains nor shadows, but a uniform ' brightness, in which sometimes we may, indeed, fancy obscurer ' portions, but can seldom or never rest fully satisfied of the ' fact.' — P. 279. In Mars ' we discern, with perfect distinctness, ' the outlines of what may be continents... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - 1835 - 414 Seiten
...neither mountains nor shadows, but a uniform brightness, in which some* times we may, indeed, fancy obscurer portions, but can seldom or never rest fully satisfied of the facti It is from some observations of this kind that both Venus and Mercury have been concluded to... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - 1849 - 672 Seiten
...permanent spots like the Moon; we notice in it neither mountains nor shadows, but a uniform brightness, in which sometimes we may indeed fancy, or perhaps more...seldom or never rest fully satisfied of the fact. It is from some observations of this kind that both Venus and Mercury have been concluded to revolve... | |
 | Thomas William Webb - 1859 - 274 Seiten
...permanent spots like the Moon ; we notice in it neither mountains nor shadows, but a uniform brightness, in which sometimes we may indeed fancy, or perhaps more...seldom or never rest fully satisfied of the fact;" and he infers, like his father, and Huygens long before, that " we do not see, as in the Moon, the... | |
 | 1861 - 898 Seiten
...permanent spots like the moon; we notice in it neither mountains nor shadows, but a uniform brightness, in which sometimes we may indeed fancy, or perhaps more...seldom or never rest fully satisfied of the fact.' But old Bianchini the Koman ecclesiastic, who seems, by the way, to have been a very respectable estimable... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1861 - 602 Seiten
...permanent spots like the moon ; we notice in it neither mountains nor shadows, but a uniform brightness, in which sometimes we may indeed fancy, or perhaps more...seldom or never rest fully satisfied of the fact." But old Bianchini the Roman ecclesiastic, who seems, by the way, to have been a very respectable, estimable... | |
 | 1861 - 820 Seiten
...permanent spots like the moon; we notice in it neither mountains nor shadows, but a uniform brightness, in which sometimes we may indeed fancy, or perhaps more...seldom or never rest fully satisfied of the fact.' But old Bianchini the Koman ecclesiastic, who seems, by the way, to have been a very respectable estimable... | |
 | Marlborough College (Marlborough, England). Natural History Society - 1869 - 452 Seiten
...spots, like the moon, we notice in it neither mountains nor shadows, but. a uniform brightuess, in which we may indeed fancy, or perhaps more than fancy, brighter...seldom or never rest fully satisfied of the fact. Herschel also infers that we do not see, as in the Moon, the real surface of this planet, but only... | |
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