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We must also include in the same category the strange object called the dumb - bell nebula , which , as seen by Sir William Herschel , presented the figure of an oval spot of milky light , enclosing a brighter portion shaped somewhat ...
We must also include in the same category the strange object called the dumb - bell nebula , which , as seen by Sir William Herschel , presented the figure of an oval spot of milky light , enclosing a brighter portion shaped somewhat ...
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made some ten or twelve years ago by Major J. Herschel , in a letter from India , that “ the eye catches the nebula as readily as it would the Pleiades . ” The statement is the more noteworthy from the fact that when Sir John Herschel ...
made some ten or twelve years ago by Major J. Herschel , in a letter from India , that “ the eye catches the nebula as readily as it would the Pleiades . ” The statement is the more noteworthy from the fact that when Sir John Herschel ...
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( for one of them the exposure lasted no less than two hours and seventeen minutes ) , from which more satisfactory enlargements have been formed — and now we have photographs of the nebula which even the most envious of unsuccessful ...
( for one of them the exposure lasted no less than two hours and seventeen minutes ) , from which more satisfactory enlargements have been formed — and now we have photographs of the nebula which even the most envious of unsuccessful ...
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Contents
I | 114 |
Alexandria By C F GORDON CUMMING | 145 |
Author An at Home By W LYND | 166 |
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| Title | The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 253 Volumes 133-158; Volumes 357-394 of Early English newspapers |
| Publisher | F. Jefferies, 1967 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 25 Sep 2012 |
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