The phenomena and order of the solar system (1843)
Nichol, J. P. (John Pringle), 1804-1859 · New York : Dayton & Newman · leaf 165
ability. Agitated apparentlyby strong causes, it often accumulates into masses likewaves, whose summits, now round, now in ridges, consti-tute bright places or faculcR^ which, when seen throughan adequate telescope, have the aspect of a broken macka-rel sky. Under this bright atmosphere lies… … 129 bed or stratum constitutes the umbra or darkish hem of thespot j and the nucleus itself is, as my distinguished prede-cessor conjectured, a vista of the dense body or real substance of the Sun. The thickness or depth of the twoatmospheres is at least several thousand miles. Connectedwith the…
Solar system
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