 | Royal institution of Great Britain - 1882 - 840 sider
...Struve and Henderson as well as Bessel. The discovery of the distances of the stars was alluded to as " the greatest and most glorious triumph which practical astronomy has ever witnessed." From this date the history of our accurate knowledge of the subject may be said to commence. Each succeeding... | |
 | John Pringle Nichol - 1848 - 294 sider
...the recent words of Sir John Ilerschel : — " This is the greatest and most glorious triumph that practical astronomy has ever witnessed. Perhaps I...possibility that it may be all an illusion — and that farther researches, as they have repeatedly before, so may now fail to substantiate this noble result.... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - 424 sider
...NICHOL. DISCOVERY OP PARALLAX AMONG THE FIXED STARS. This is the greatest and most glorious triumph2 that practical astronomy has ever witnessed. Perhaps I...possibility that it may be all an illusion — and that farther researches, as they have repeatedly before, so may now, fail to substantiate this noble result.... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1881 - 664 sider
...Henderson as well as those of Bessel. The discovery of the distances of the stars was alluded to as "the greatest and most glorious triumph which practical astronomy has ever witnessed." From this date the history of our accurate knowledge of the subject may be said to commence. Each succeeding... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1881 - 658 sider
...Henderson as well as those of Bessel. The discovery of the distances of the stars was alluded to as " the greatest and most glorious triumph which practical astronomy has ever witnessed." From this date the history of our accurate knowledge of the subject may be said to commence. Each succeeding... | |
 | Robert Stawell Ball - 1885 - 612 sider
...barrier against which we have chafed so long and so vainly — csstuantes angnsto limile muntJi — almost simultaneously overleaped at three different...possibility that it may be all an illusion, and that future researches, as they have repeatedly before, so may now fail to substantiate this noble result.... | |
 | 1844 - 666 sider
...which we have chafed so long and so vainly, (astuantes angusto limite mundi,) thus fairly overleaped. It is the greatest and most glorious triumph which...strongly — perhaps I should hold some reserve in favor of the bare possibility that it may be all an illusion, and that further researches, as they... | |
 | Thomas Rice Holmes - 1923 - 516 sider
...knowledge of astronomy, I hoped that he would share my interest in what Sir John Herschel called ' the greatest and most glorious triumph which practical astronomy has ever witnessed '. To my surprise and disappointment he dismissed the subject with impatient contempt : the Nautical... | |
 | Royal Astronomical Society - 1927 - 842 sider
...barrier against which we have chafed so long and so vainly — cest-uantes angusto limite mundi — almost simultaneously overleaped at three different...triumph which practical astronomy has ever witnessed. . . . Let us trust that, as the barrier ha« begun to yield, it will speedily be effectually prostrated."... | |
 | William Marshall Smart - 1928 - 354 sider
...into the sidereal universe — that barrier against which we have chafed so long and so vainly — almost simultaneously overleaped at three different...reserve in favour of the bare possibility that it may all be an illusion, and that further researches, as they have repeatedly before, so may now fail to... | |
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I congratulate you and myself that we have lived to see the great and hitherto impassable barrier to our excursions into the sidereal universe — that barrier against which we have chafed so long and so vainly — almost simultaneously overleaped at... 
