 | Sir John Frederick William Herschel - 1833 - 444 sivua
...supercilious nor causeless. The constellations seem to have been almost purposely named and delineated to cause as much confusion and inconvenience as possible....and contorted areas of the heavens, where no memory cart follow them ; bears, lions and fishes, large and small, northern and southern, confuse all nomenclature,... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - 1835 - 414 sivua
...supercilious nor causeless. The constellations seem to have been almost purposely named and delineated to cause as much confusion and inconvenience as possible....southern, confuse all nomenclature, &c. A better system of con* •tellations might have been a material help as an artificial memory. (253.) There are not wanting,... | |
 | Thomas Spofford - 1835 - 84 sivua
...of men and monsters, on celestial globes and maps, where one figure runs into another, and numerous snakes twine through long and contorted areas of the heavens where no memory can follow them, and bears, lions, and fishes, large and small, northern and southern, confuse all nonienclature, &c.... | |
 | William Whewell - 1837 - 1048 sivua
...vi. 545, thinks that Aisch was ui£, the goat and kids. See Hyde, Ulughbeigh. " Herschel. venience as possible. Innumerable snakes twine through long...small, northern and southern, confuse all nomenclature. A better system of constellations might have been a material help as an artificial memory." When men... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1838 - 266 sivua
...supercilious nor causeless. The constellations seem to have been almost purposely named and delineated to cause as much confusion and inconvenience as possible....through long and contorted areas of the heavens, where no.memory can follow them ; bears, lions', and fishes, large and small, northern and southern, confuse... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1839 - 262 sivua
...supercilious nor causeless. The constellations seem to have been almost purposely named and delineated to cause as much confusion and inconvenience as possible....and contorted areas of the heavens, where no memory call follow them ; bears, lions, and fishes, large and small, northern and southern, confuse all nomenclature,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1839 - 298 sivua
...delineated to cause as much conuieion and inconvenience as possible. Innumerable snakes twine throngh long and contorted areas of the heavens, where no memory can follow them ; beam, lions, and fishes, large and small, northern and sonthern, confuse all nomenclature. &c. A... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - 1842 - 472 sivua
...purposely named and delineated to cause as much confusion and inconvenience as possible. Innumerable snakei twine through long and contorted areas of the heavens,...southern, confuse all nomenclature, &c. A better system of con*tellation; might have been a material help as an artificial memory. (253.) There are not wanting,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1842 - 278 sivua
...purposely named and delineated to cause as much confusion and inconvenience as possible. Innumerable suakes twine through long and contorted areas of the heavens,...and fishes, large and small, northern and southern, coofuse all nomenclature, &c. A better system of constellations might have been a material help u an... | |
 | sir William Cathcart Boyd - 1844 - 502 sivua
...an astronomer of our own time, Herschel, " seem to have been almost purposely named and delineated to cause as much confusion and inconvenience as possible....small, northern and southern, confuse all nomenclature. A better system of constellations might have been a material help as an artificial memory." The similarity... | |
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This disregard is neither supercilious nor causeless. The constellations seem to have been almost purposely named and delineated to cause as much confusion and inconvenience as possible. Innumerable snakes twine through long and contorted areas of the... 
