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... stars . Fluorescence , LECTURE X. SPECTRUM ANALYSIS . Change of colour of Light by relative velocity of source and observer . Analogy from Sound . Causes of broadening of spectral lines . Spectrum of Solar Corona ; of Double Stars ; of ...
... stars . Fluorescence , LECTURE X. SPECTRUM ANALYSIS . Change of colour of Light by relative velocity of source and observer . Analogy from Sound . Causes of broadening of spectral lines . Spectrum of Solar Corona ; of Double Stars ; of ...
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... stars or nebulæ , though moving at the rate of about 186,000 miles per second , takes many years to travel ; or the size of the particles of water , whose number in a single drop may , as we have reason to believe , amount to some ...
... stars or nebulæ , though moving at the rate of about 186,000 miles per second , takes many years to travel ; or the size of the particles of water , whose number in a single drop may , as we have reason to believe , amount to some ...
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... star or nebula , shows us the material of potential suns , other suns in the process of formation , in vigorous youth , and in every stage of slowly protracted decay . It leads us to look on each planet and satellite as having been at ...
... star or nebula , shows us the material of potential suns , other suns in the process of formation , in vigorous youth , and in every stage of slowly protracted decay . It leads us to look on each planet and satellite as having been at ...
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... stars , our natural and only trustworthy mode of explaining the sun's heat at present , in time past , and for time to come , must be something closely analogous to , but not identical with , what was called the nebular hypothesis of ...
... stars , our natural and only trustworthy mode of explaining the sun's heat at present , in time past , and for time to come , must be something closely analogous to , but not identical with , what was called the nebular hypothesis of ...
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... stars form another splendid and still more striking instance of it , as where a star suddenly appears of the first magnitude , or even brighter than the first , outshining all the planets for a month or two at a time , and then , after ...
... stars form another splendid and still more striking instance of it , as where a star suddenly appears of the first magnitude , or even brighter than the first , outshining all the planets for a month or two at a time , and then , after ...
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