 | Robert Grant - 1852 - 686 pages
...luminous spaces, no one star or particular constituent body can possibly be distinguished ; those, in all likelihood, may be external creation, bordering...the known one, too remote for even our telescopes to reaeh."\ The speculations of Wright on the Milky Way are so consistent with sound philosophy and the... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1884 - 422 pages
...constituent body can possibly be distinguished, these, in all likelihood, may be external creations, bordering upon the known one, too remote for even our telescopes to reach.' Kepler's quaint system is illustrated in fig. 1. Wright's may be regarded as in some sort illustrated... | |
 | Freeman J. Dyson - 1996 - 618 pages
...body can possibly be distinRev. Mod. Phys.. Vol. 51. No. 3. July 1979 pushed; those in all likelyhood may be external creation, bordering upon the known...one, too remote for even our telescopes to reach." Thirty-five years later, Wright's speculations were confirmed by William Herschel's precise observations.... | |
 | George Francis Rayner Ellis - 2002 - 412 pages
...visibly luminous spaces, no one star or particular constituent body can possibly be distinguished; those in all likelihood may be external creation, bordering...one, too remote for even our telescopes to reach." Thirty-five years later, Wright's speculations were confirmed by William Herschel's precise observations.... | |
 | Ken Croswell - 2002 - 353 pages
...Spaces, no one Star or particular constituent Body can possibly be distinguished; those in all likelyhood may be external Creation, bordering upon the known...remote for even our Telescopes to reach." Wright's work triggered further speculations. Prussian philosopher Immanuel Kant read a review of Wright's book... | |
 | Gerhard Börner - 2004 - 622 pages
...spaces. no one star or particular constituent body can possibly be distinguished: those in all likelyhood may be external creation. bordering upon the known...one. too remote for even our telescopes to reach." Thomas Wright (1750) The aim of most modern theories of the structure of the universe is to explain... | |
 | Neil deGrasse Tyson - 2007 - 392 pages
...Spaces, no one Star or particular constituent Body can possibly be distinguished; those in all likelyhood may be external Creation, bordering upon the known one, too remote for even our Telescopes to reach, (p. 177) Wright's "cloudy Spots" are in fact collections of hundreds of billions of stars, situated... | |
| |
Regions, in which tho' visibly luminous spaces, no one star or particular constituent body can possibly be distinguished; those in all likelihood may be external creation, bordering upon the known one, too remote for even our telescopes to reach. 