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" They now are seen to resemble a luxuriant garden, which contains the greatest variety of productions, in different flourishing beds; and one advantage we may at least reap from it is, that we can, as it were, extend the range of our experience to immense... "
The Herschels and Modern Astronomy - Page 68
by Agnes Mary Clerke - 1901 - 224 pages
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Readings in Natural Philosophy: Or, A Popular Display of the Wonders of ...

Sir Richard Phillips - 1830 - 728 pages
...different. This method of viewing the heavens seems to throw them into a new kind of light. They now are seen to resemble a luxuriant garden, which contains...the greatest variety of productions, in different nourishing beds ; and one advantage we may at least reap from it is, that we can, as it were, extend...
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The Universe and the Coming Transits: Presenting Researches Into and New ...

Richard Anthony Proctor - Stars - 1874 - 480 pages
...the different appearances of nebula?, ' seems to throw them into a new kind of light. They now are seen to resemble a luxuriant garden, which contains the greatest variety of productions in different flowering beds ; and one advantage we may at least reap from it is, that we can, as it were, extend...
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Knowledge: An Illustrated Magazine of Science, Volume 5

Science - 1884 - 536 pages
...method of viewing the heavens," he remarks, " seems to throw them into a new kind of light. They now are seen to resemble a luxuriant garden, which contains the greatest variety of productions in different flowering beds ; and one advantage we may at least reap from it is that we can, as it were extend the...
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The Universe of Suns: And Other Science Gleanings

Richard Anthony Proctor - Astronomy - 1884 - 422 pages
...method of viewing the heavens,' he remarks, ' seems to throw them into a new kind of light. They now are seen to resemble a luxuriant garden, which contains the greatest variety of productions in different flowering beds ; and one advantage we may at least reap from it is that we can, as it were, extend...
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A Short History of Astronomy

Arthur Berry - Astronomy - 1899 - 578 pages
...condensation could be regarded as a sign of " age." And he goes on : — "This method of viewing the heavens seems to throw them into a new kind of light. They...at least reap from it is, that we can, as it were, expend the range of our experience to an immense duration. For, to continue the simile 1 have borrowed...
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Elementary Astronomy: A Beginner's Text-book

Edward Singleton Holden - Astronomy - 1899 - 484 pages
...in each especial stage. As Sir "William Herschel wrote in 1789, "This method of viewing the heavens seems to throw them into a new kind of light. They...of productions in different flourishing beds; and we can, as it were, extend the range of our experience to an immense duration. For is it not the same...
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The World Machine: The First Phase; the Cosmic Mechanism

Carl Snyder - Celestial mechanics - 1907 - 520 pages
...of fancy, a paragraph from his paper may be of interest : — " This method of viewing the heavens seems to throw them into a new kind of light. They...the greatest variety of productions, in different nourishing beds ; and one advantage we may at least reap from it is, that we can, as it were, extend...
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Picturing Science, Producing Art

Caroline A. Jones, Peter Galison, Amy E. Slaton - Art and science - 1998 - 536 pages
...types the senior Herschel was able to urge that "the heavens . . . are now seen to resemble a luxutiant garden, which contains the greatest variety of productions, in different flourishing beds. . . .we can, as it were, extend the range of our expetience to an immense duration."" Herschel reckoned...
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Rhetorical Figures in Science

Jeanne Fahnestock - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 249 pages
...synchronically: This method of viewing the heavens seems to throw them into a new kind of light. They now are seen to resemble a luxuriant garden, which contains...as it were, extend the range of our experience to immense duration. For, to continue the simile I have borrowed from the vegetable kingdom, is it not...
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Cosmology: The Science of the Universe

Edward Harrison - Science - 2000 - 586 pages
...botany. In a paper "On the construction of the heavens" he wrote: "This method of viewing the heavens seems to throw them into a new kind of light. They...resemble a luxuriant garden, which contains the greatest varie tv of productions in different flourishing beds: and one advantage we may at least reap from...
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