A photograph at a receives four times as much light as when held at b.
A fine type of such double star is [b] Cygni, in which the components are respectively yellow and blue, and the yellow star furnishes eight times asmuch light as the blue one.
Algol, the most famous of these variable stars, at its maximum of brightness furnishes three times as much light as when at its minimum, and other variable stars show an even greater range.
But so great is the intensity of its radiance that even as so diminutive a sun as that it would give to Neptune more than six hundred times as much light as our full moon gives to us.
From equal areas it reflects almost four times as much light as Mercury and three times as much as Mars.
On account of their great distance from the sun Saturn’s moons are, of course, not very bright, and all of them put together do not give one-tenth as much light to Saturn as we receive from our moon.
If the acetylene is merely compressed into porous matter without acetone, the gas burnt is acetylene simply; but per unit of volume or weight the cylinders will not be capable of developing so much light.
The two stars together, Sirius and its companion, give forth twenty-six times as much light as our own sun.
The period of revolution of Procyon and its companion about a common center is about forty years, and the two stars combined weigh about a third more than our own sun and give forth six times as much light.
So faint is the companion of Sirius that it is estimated that twenty thousand such stars would be needed to give forth as much light as Sirius.
It gives forth about five hundred and twenty-five times as much light as our own sun.
But withal, we must open our eyes upon so much light as God reveals of these secrets, knowing that the light of the word is a saving, refreshing light, not confounding, as is his inaccessible light of secret glory.
Although there be much light in the scriptures to guide men’s way to God’s glory and their own happiness, yet it will all be to small purpose if “the eyes of our understanding be darkened and blinded.
By these means it has been found that Rigel gives out about ten thousand times as much light as our sun, so that if its surface is of the same brightness, it must be a hundred times the diameter of the sun.
One hundred of the companions of Sirius would not give as much light as our sun!
It is illuminated with nearly as much light as would be collected from the same object through a pupil as large as the great lenses of the telescope.
We attach a powerful spectroscope to the eye-end of a telescope in order to get as much light as possible concentrated on the slit; the latter has therefore to be placed exactly at the focus of the object-glass.
The moon sheds so much light, and seems so bright, that it is often difficult at night to remember that the moon has no light except what falls on it from the sun.
Dividing this again by two, because only half of the stars could be seen at once, we find that the night side of our observer's planet would be illuminated with fifteen times as much light as the full moon sheds upon the earth.
This would be about fifteen times, and accordingly all the stars together would shed, at the center, some thirty times as much light as that of the moon.
In the sky the next object in brightness is the full moon, but that gives less than the half-millionth part as much light as the sun.
And as geometry has settled it for us that areas of surfaces are proportioned to the squares of their diameters, a two-inch object glass focuses upon the retina of the eye 64 times as much light as the unassisted eye would receive.
Thus a small quartz tube of incandescent mercury vapor will emit as much light as a long glass tube.
No other gas easily produced upon a commercial scale yields as much light, volume for volume, as acetylene.
The cost of this lighting was a hundred times the cost of as much light for a similar occasion at the present time.
It may be interesting to know that a large match emits about as much light as a burning candle and a so-called safety match about one third as much.
Thus an eye or a telescope in the position B will receive from the star one fourth as much light as in the position A, and the star will seem one fourth as bright.
It is then evident that any small portion of the surface of B will receive one fourth as much light as an equal portion of surface A.
If there is much light behind a pane of glass, for instance, the pupil of the eye will be partially closed and not be able to see the faint light which is reflected.
He will see the reflections of reflections repeated until by absorption so much light is lost that they finally become invisible.
Where the air is full of dust, or where smoking is allowed; much light will be absorbed.
I fear me, when the Roman religion rolled her clouds of darkness over the earlier ages, that she quenched as much light, and knowledge, and judgment as our modern Liberals have ever displayed.
The purpose of the window being always to let in as much light, and command as much view, as possible, these bars of stone are to be made as slender and as few as they can be, consistently with their due strength.
And in truth a great debt is due to him and to Niccola his father, since in an age which lacked every element of good design, in the midst of all the darkness they threw so much light on those arts in which they were really excellent.
When I saw it again in the year 1563 it seemed most beautiful, as I reflected how marvellous it was that Cimabue should see so much light in the midst of so great darkness.
These gave him great assistance and much light, advantages which could not be enjoyed by Giotto, because the ancient paintings which have been preserved are not so numerous as the sculptures.
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