A high-school astronomy: in which the descriptive, physical, and practical are combined .. (1859)
Mattison, Hiram, 1811-1868 · New York, Mason brothers · leaf 158
loss, or rather seems to remove furtherfrom us the prospect of explanation. If conjecturemight be hazarded, we should look rather to the knownpossibility of an indefinite generation of heat by friction,or to its excitement by the electric discharge, than toany actual combustion of ponderable fluid,… … 322. The Zodiacal Light is a faint nebulous light, re-sembling the tail of a comet, or the milky way, whichseems to be reflected fromthe regions about the sun,and is distinguishable fromordinary twilight. Its formis that of a pyramid orcone, with its base towardthe sun, and inclined slight-ly to…
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