 | Sir John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1833 - 444 pages
...sustain no greater shock in his descent than he does on the earth from leaping a yard. On such planets giants might exist ; and those enormous animals, which...buoyant power of water to counteract their weight, might there be denizens of the land. But of such speculation there is no end. (449.) We shall close... | |
 | sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - 500 pages
...sustain no greater shock in his descent than he does on the earth from leaping a yard. On such planets giants might exist ; and those enormous animals, which...buoyant power of water to counteract their weight, might there be denizens of the land. But of such speculation there is no end. (449.) We shall close... | |
 | 1833 - 618 pages
...sustain no greater shock in his descent than he does on the earth from leaping a yard. On such planets, giants might exist ; and those enormous animals, which...buoyant power of water to counteract their weight, might there be denizens of the land. But of such speculation there is no end. " We shall close this... | |
 | 1834 - 596 pages
...sustain Bo greater shock in his descent than he does on the earth from leaping i yard. On such planets giants might exist ; and those enormous animals, which on earth require the huoyant power of water to counteract their weight, might there be denizens of the land.' — Pp. 286,... | |
 | Astrology - 1841 - 266 pages
...sustain no greater shock in his descent than he does on the earth from leaping a yard. On such planets giants might exist, and those enormous animals, which...buoyant power of water to counteract their weight, might there be denizens of the land." The only one of these planets visible to the naked eye is Vesta.... | |
 | 1853 - 588 pages
...sustain no greater shock in his descent than he does on the earth from leaping a yard. On such planets giants might exist, and those enormous animals which...buoyant power of water to counteract their weight, might there be denizens of the land.' If the fixed stars be suns, of what pondrous adamant must the... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1849 - 672 pages
...sustain no greater shock in his descent than he does on the earth from leaping a yard. On such planets giants might exist; and those enormous animals, which...buoyant power of water to counteract their weight, might there be denizens of the land. But of such speculations there is no end. (526.) We shall close... | |
 | 1850 - 600 pages
...sustain no greater shock in his descent than he does on the earth from leaping a yard. On such planets giants might exist, and those enormous animals, which...buoyant power of water to counteract their weight, might there be denizens of the land."f If the fixed stars be suns, of what ponderous adamant must the... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1850 - 604 pages
...sustain no greater shock in his descent than he does on the earth from leaping a yard. On such planets giants might exist, and those enormous animals, which...buoyant power of water to counteract their weight, might there be denizens of the land."f If the fixed stars be suns, of what ponderous adamant must the... | |
 | 1850 - 790 pages
...he does on the Earth from leaping a yard. On such planeta giants nu'ght exist ; and those ciiornwua animals, which on earth require the buoyant power of water to counteract their weight, might there be denizens of the land. But of such speculations there is no end. We shall close tliis... | |
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On such planets giants might exist; and those enormous animals, which on earth require the buoyant power of water to counteract their weight, might there be denizens of the land. 
