John Herschel Quote

I know not how to describe it [the great nebula in the constellation of Orion] better than by comparing it with a curdling liquid, or a surface strewed over with flocks of wool, or to the breaking up of a mackerel sky,, when the clouds of which it consists begin to assume a cirrus appearance.


Quoted in Dionysius Lardner, Popular Lectures on Science and Art (Volume 2)


I know not how to describe it [the great nebula in the constellation of Orion] better than by comparing it with a curdling liquid, or a surface...

I know not how to describe it [the great nebula in the constellation of Orion] better than by comparing it with a curdling liquid, or a surface...

I know not how to describe it [the great nebula in the constellation of Orion] better than by comparing it with a curdling liquid, or a surface...

I know not how to describe it [the great nebula in the constellation of Orion] better than by comparing it with a curdling liquid, or a surface...