 | 1818 - 384 pages
...and all exceeded 25° or 30°. There was very little wind, and no trace of clonds was to be seen. Mr. Bonpland relates, that from the beginning of the phenomenon,...firmament equal in extent to three diameters of the moon, that was not filled at every instant with bolides and falling stars. The first were fewer in number.... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - Natural history - 1818 - 604 pages
...stars above 10° of elevation. and this blew from the east. No trace of clouds was to be seen. Mr. Bonpland relates, that, from the beginning of the...firmament equal in extent to three diameters of the moon, that was not filled at every instant with bolides and falling stars. The first were fewer in number,... | |
 | Science - 1864 - 480 pages
...direction of the meridian. Some of them attained a height of 40°, and all exceeded 25° or 80° Mr. Bonpland relates, that from the beginning of the phenomenon...firmament equal in extent to three diameters of the moon, that was not filled at every instant with bolides and falling stars The Guaiqueries in the Indian suburb... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt - Natural history - 1822 - 592 pages
...appearance, it would seem as if more 329 and this blew from the east. No trace of clouds was to be seen. Mr Bonpland relates, that, from the beginning of the...firmament equal in extent to three diameters of the moon, that was not filled at every instant with bolides and falling stars. The first were fewer in number,... | |
 | 1824 - 394 pages
...and all exceeded 25° or 30". There was very little wind, and no trace of clouds was to be seen, Mr. Bonpland relates, that from the beginning of the phenomenon,...firmament equal in extent to three diameters of the moon, that was not filled at every instant with bolides and falling stars. The first were fewer in number.... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1830 - 432 pages
...height of forty degrees ; all exceeded twenty-five or thirty. No trace of clouds was to be seen. M. Bonpland relates that, from the beginning of the phenomenon, there was not a space in the firmament equal to three diameters of the moon, that was not filled at every instant with bolides or falling stars.... | |
 | Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - Astronomy - 1838 - 350 pages
...stars succeeded each other during lour hours. Their direction was very regular from north to south. From the beginning of the phenomenon there was not a space in the lirmament, equal in extent to three diameters of the moon, which was not filled, every inslant, with... | |
 | 1867 - 878 pages
...glance." Ilumboldt, in his long account of the shower of 1799, in his " Personal Narrative," states that, from the beginning of the phenomenon, there...firmament equal in extent to three diameters of the moon that was not filled at every instant with bolides and falling stars; while in 1766 the inhabitants... | |
 | 1864 - 968 pages
...of them attained a height of 40°, and all exceeded 25° or 30° Mr. Bonpland relates, that from tha beginning of the phenomenon there was not a space...firmament equal in extent to three diameters of the moon, that was not filled at every instant with bolides and falling stars The Guoiqueries in the Indian suburb... | |
 | Science - 1864 - 484 pages
...direction of the meridian. Some of them attained a height of 40°, and all exceeded 25° or 30° Mr. Bonpland relates, that from the beginning of the phenomenon there was not a space m the firmament equal in extent to three diameters of the moon, that was not filled at every instant... | |
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Bonpland relates, that from the beginning of the phenomenon there was not a space in the firmament equal in extent to three diameters of the moon, that was not filled at every instant. with bolides and falling stars. 
