 | Agnes Mary Clerke - 1890 - 494 pages
...external galaxies hardly any longer needs discussion. It has been answered by the progress of discovery. No competent thinker, with the whole of the available...is safe to say, maintain any single nebula to be a star system of coordinate rank with the Milky Way. A practical certainty has been attained that the... | |
 | Henry Grattan Guinness - 1896 - 586 pages
...external galaxies hardly any longer needs discussion. It has been answered by the progress of discovery. No competent thinker, with the whole of the available...is safe to say, maintain any single nebula to be a star system of co-ordinate rank with the Milky Way. A practical certainty has been attained that the... | |
 | Agnes Mary Clerke - 1905 - 470 pages
...exceeding the compass of finite minds, to grasp in its entirety. CHAPTEE XXVI STATUS OF THE NEBULffl THE question whether nebulae are external galaxies...is safe to say, maintain any single nebula to be a star system of co-ordinate rank with the Milky Way. A practical certainty has been attained that the... | |
 | 1927 - 466 pages
...external galaxies hardly any longer needs discussion. It has been answered by the progress of discovery. No competent thinker with the whole of the available evidence before him, can now, it is safe to sajr, maintain any single nebula to be a star system of coordinate rank with the Milky Way.» The descriptive... | |
 | Frank Washington Very - 1927 - 414 pages
...external galaxies hardly any longer needs discussion. It has been answered by the progress of discovery. No competent thinker with the whole of the available...is safe to say, maintain any single nebula to be a star system of co-ordinate rank with the Milky Way. A practical certainty has been attained that the... | |
 | D. W. Sciama - 1971 - 256 pages
...expressed in that old controversy. In 1905 Agnes Clerke, a historian of astronomy, wrote as follows: The question whether nebulae are external galaxies...is safe to say, maintain any single nebula to be a star system of co-ordinate rank with the Milky Way. The main evidence for this view was the fact that... | |
 | Michael J. Crowe - 1994 - 468 pages
...expanse." Virgil, Aeneid, Bk. I, l.. 118. MJC] ^Uran. Argentina, p. 381. CHAPTER XXVI STATUS OF THE NEBULAE The question whether nebulae are external galaxies...is safe to say, maintain any single nebula to be a star system of co-ordinate rank with the Milky Way. A practical certainty has been attained that the... | |
 | Helge Kragh - 1999 - 518 pages
...system. Writing in 1890, the English astronomer Agnes Clerke summed up the prevailing view as follows: No competent thinker, with the whole of the available...is safe to say, maintain any single nebula to be a star system of coordinate rank with the Milky Way. A practical certainty has been attained that the... | |
 | Michael Hoskin - 1999 - 384 pages
...external galaxies hardly any longer needs discussion. It has been answered by the progress of discovery. No competent thinker, with the whole of the available...him, can now, it is safe to say, maintain any single nebulae to be a star system of coordinate rank with the Milky Way. A practical certainty has been attained... | |
 | F. Hoyle, G. Burbidge, J. V. Narlikar - 2000 - 382 pages
...her remarks on the results and conclusions of professional astronomers, stated with some confidence: The question whether nebulae are external galaxies...is safe to say, maintain any single nebula to be a star system of co-ordinate rank with the Milky Way. A practical certainty has been attained that the... | |
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No competent thinker, with the whole of the available evidence before him, can now, it is safe to say, maintain any single nebula to be a star system of co-ordinate rank with the Milky Way. 
