It is for the most part after thus passing the sun that they shine forth in all their splendor, and that their tails acquire their greatest length and development, thus indicating plainly the action of the sun's rays as the exciting cause of that extraordinary emanation.


Outlines of Astronomy, Part I, Chapter XI (561) (p. 346)

John Herschel Quotes

It is for the most part after thus passing the sun that they shine forth in all their splendor, and that their tails acquire their greatest length...

It is for the most part after thus passing the sun that they shine forth in all their splendor, and that their tails acquire their greatest length...

It is for the most part after thus passing the sun that they shine forth in all their splendor, and that their tails acquire their greatest length...

It is for the most part after thus passing the sun that they shine forth in all their splendor, and that their tails acquire their greatest length...