Stars and telescopes; a hand-book of popular astronomy, founded on the 9th ed. of Lynn's Celestial motions (1899)
Todd, David P. (David Peck), 1855-1939, Lynn, William Thynne, 1835-1911. Celestial motions · Boston, Little, Brown and company · leaf 306
s. Fortunately, the inven-tion of the spectroscope by Kirchhoff about i860,and Dr Hugginss application of it to the heavenlybodies at once answered this question in the negative,by showing that many of the nebulae are masses ofglowing gas in the process of condensation. It thenbecame a matter of… … LORD ROSSES GREAT SIX-FOOT REFLECTING TELESCOPE(Birr Castle. Parsonstown, Ireland) the first to apply to the nebular contraction of theSun, and Lanes researches on condensing gaseous 248 Stars and Telescopes masses, together with the researches of Lord Kelvinon the Suns age and heat, have each…
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