| Robert Grant - Astronomy - 1852 - 688 pages
...discovered the fallacy of the new observations, and demonstrated the utter impossibility of their existence. I do not know what to say in a case so surprising,...the fear of being mistaken, have greatly confounded me."f During the course of nearly half a century which elapsed after the invention of the telescope,... | |
| American literature - 1857 - 602 pages
...with which the glasses have so long deceived me, as well as many others, to whom I have shown them? I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked-for, and so novel. The shortness of the time, the unexpected nature of the event, the weakness... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1857 - 588 pages
...with which the glasses have so long deceived me, as well as many others, to whom I have shown them? I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked-for, and so novel. The shortness of the time, the unexpected nature of the event, the weakness... | |
| George Frederick Chambers - Astronomy - 1867 - 888 pages
...discovered the fallacy of the new observations, and demonstrated the utter impossibility of their existence. I do not know what to say in a case so surprising,...fear of being mistaken, have greatly confounded me t" Galileo was so disgusted that he entirely abandoned observations of Saturn. The original discovery... | |
| Charles Knight - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 528 pages
...discovered the fallacy of the new observations, and demonstrated the utter impossibility of their existence. I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked-for, and so novel. The shortness of the time, the unexpected nature of the event, the weakness... | |
| 1872 - 642 pages
...discovered the fallacy of the new observations, and demonstrated the utter impossibility of their existence. I do not know what to say in a case so surprising,...fear of being mistaken, have greatly confounded me.' Galileo afterwards saw the smaller orbs return into view; but he noticed that as they grew larger and... | |
| Thomas Milner - 1873 - 336 pages
...with which the glasses have so long deceived me, as well as many others, to whom I have shown them ? I do not know what to say in a case so surprising,...fear of being mistaken, have greatly confounded me." Galileo, however, witnessed the old appearances again, and saw them renew their changes ; but he never... | |
| Richard Anthony Proctor - 1875 - 394 pages
...discovered the fallacy of the new observations, and demonstrated the utter impossibility of their existence. I do not know what to say in a case so surprising,...fear of being mistaken, have greatly confounded me." Galileo afterwards saw the smaller orbs return into view ; but he noticed that as they grew larger... | |
| Richard Anthony Proctor - Astrology - 1876 - 496 pages
...discovered the fallacy of the new observations, and demonstrated the utter impossibility of their existence. I do not know what to say in a case so surprising,...fear of being mistaken, have greatly confounded me." Galileo afterwards saw the smaller orbs return into view \ but he noticed that as they grew larger... | |
| English periodicals - 1877 - 564 pages
...a fin* line of light as seen with one of our powerful modem telescopes. rounded as the disc of Mavs or Jupiter. ' What,' he wrote, ' is to be said concerning...do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for, and so novel. The shortness of the time, the unexpected nature of the event, the weakness... | |
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