| 1867 - 878 pages
...action, broken up by mutual impact, and again collected and solidified, the meteoric irons possibly being those portions of the metallic constituents which were separated from the rest by fusion when the metamorphosis was carried to the extreme point. We see thus how interesting are the inquiries opened... | |
| Amédée Guillemin - Astronomy - 1867 - 588 pages
...together into larger masses, which have been variously changed by subsequent metamorphic action, and broken up by repeated mutual impact, and often again...together and solidified. The meteoric irons are probably :': •" DC O TTLDtN those portions of the metallic constituents which were separated from the rest... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - Astronomy - 1871 - 464 pages
...together into larger masses, which have been variously changed by subsequent metamorphic action, and broken up by repeated mutual impact, and often again...metamorphism was carried to that extreme point. CHAPTER IV. APPARENT MOVEMENTS OF THE HEAVENLY BODIES. LESSON XXVI. — THE EARTH A MOVING OBSERVATORY. THE... | |
| Amédée Guillemin - Astronomy - 1871 - 464 pages
...together into larger masses, which have been variously changed by subsequent metamorphic action, and broken up by repeated mutual impact, and often again...the metamorphism was carried to that extreme point. Though at present he looks upon it as a mere hypothesis, he ventures to suggest that there is a similar... | |
| Amédée Guillemin - Astronomy - 1871 - 452 pages
...together into larger masses, which have been variously changed by subsequent metamorphic action, and broken up by repeated mutual impact, and often again...the metamorphism was carried to that extreme point. Though at present he looks upon it as a mere hypothesis, he ventures to suggest that there is a similar... | |
| Amédée Guillemin - Astronomy - 1871 - 462 pages
...together into larger masses, which have been variously changed by subsequent metamorphic action, and broken up by repeated mutual impact, and often again...which were separated from the rest by fusion when the mctamorphism was carried to that extreme point. Though at present he looks upon it as a mere hypothesis,... | |
| Amédée Guillemin - Astronomy - 1872 - 460 pages
...which have been variously changed by subsequent metamorphic action, and broken up by repeated mujual impact, and often again collected together and solidified....the metamorphism was carried to that extreme point. Though at present he looks upon it as a mere hypothesis, he ventures to suggest that there is a similar... | |
| Amédée Victor Guillemin - 1876 - 488 pages
...together into larger masses, which have been variously changed by subsequent metamorphic action, and broken up by repeated mutual impact, and often again...the metamorphism was carried to that extreme point. Though at present he looks upon it as a mere hypothesis, he ventures to suggest that there is a similar... | |
| Richard Anthony Proctor - Astronomie - 1877 - 344 pages
...afterwards collected into larger masses, which have 'been variously changed by subsequent action, and broken up by repeated mutual impact, and often again collected together and solidified.' This would clearly suggest that these meteoric masses were originally expelled either from the sun... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - Astronomy - 1880 - 332 pages
...ascertained that the matter of which they are composed was certainly at one time -in a state of fusion ; and that the most remote condition of which we have...CHAPTER XII. APPARENT MOVEMENTS OF THE HEAVENLY BODIES. ;jZ3- IN the preceding chapters we have studied in detail the whole universe of which we form a part;... | |
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