 | 1872 - 1200 pages
...hundred and sixty-seven miles per second, is considerably greater than anything hitherto recorded. " ' As the filaments rose they gradually faded away like a dissolving cloud; and at fifteen minutes past one PM, only a few filmy wisps, with some brighter streamers low down near the... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1872 - 576 pages
...its appearance when the filaments attained their greatest elevation may be obtained from fig. 81. ' As the filaments rose they gradually faded away like a dissolving cloud, and at 1.15 only a few filmy Fio. 81. wisps, with some brighter streamers low down near the diromatosphere, remained to mark the... | |
 | James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - 1872 - 504 pages
...appearance presented when the filaments attained their greatest elevation may be obtained from fig. 2. " As the filaments rose they gradually faded away like a dissolving cloud, and at 1 h. 15 m. PM only a few filmy wisps, with some brighter streamers low down near the chromatoephere,... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1872 - 396 pages
...to a height of 160,000 miles. per second — is considerably greater than anything hitherto recorded As the filaments rose, they gradually faded away like a dissolving cloud, and at a quarter-past one, only a few filmy wisps, with some brighter streamers low down, near the chromatosphere,... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1872 - 406 pages
...to a height of 160,000 miles. per second — is considerably greater than anything hitherto recorded As the filaments rose, they gradually faded away like a dissolving cloud, and at a quarter-past one, only a few filmy wisps, with some brighter streamers low down, near the chromatosphere,... | |
 | 1872 - 830 pages
...velocity of ascent also, 167 miles per second, is considerably greater than any thing hitherto recorded. " As the filaments rose they gradually faded away like a dissolving cloud, and at i h. 15 m. PM only a few filmy wisps, with some brighter streamers low down near the chromatosphere,... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1872 - 608 pages
...filaments, brighter and closer together where the pillars had formerly stood, and rapidly ascending. As the filaments rose, they gradually faded away, like a dissolving cloud; and, at a quarter- past one, only a few filmy wisps, with some brighter streamers low down near the chromosphere,... | |
 | James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - 1872 - 486 pages
...2. " As the filaments rose they gradually faded away like a dissolving cloud, and at 1 h. 15 m. PM only a few filmy wisps, with some brighter streamers low down near the chromatosphere, remained to mark the place. But in the meanwhile the little ' thunder-head ' before... | |
 | Spencer Fullerton Baird - 1872 - 686 pages
...ascent, one hundred and sixty-six miles per second, was considerably greater than any .hitherto recorded. As the filaments rose they gradually faded away like a dissolving cloud, and in about twenty minutes only a few filmy wisps, with some bright streamers, low down near the chromosphere,... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1873 - 336 pages
...above the solar surface. As they rose they gradually faded away like a dissolving cloud, and soon after only a few filmy wisps, with some brighter streamers low down near the chromosphere, remained to mark the place. The principal substances which spectrum analysis has revealed to us as existing in... | |
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But in the meanwhile the little " thunder-head " before alluded to had grown and developed wonderfully into a mass of rolling and ever-changing flame, to speak according to appearances. 
