"Spectroscopy" Quotes from Famous Books
... at a distance of five hundred million miles, nearly as far from the sun as Jupiter is from ours, yet the giant sun, giving more than twenty-five times as much heat and light in the blue-white range, heated the planet to approximately the same temperature Earth enjoys. Spectroscopy showed that the atmosphere was well supplied with oxygen, and so the inhabitants were evidently oxygen-breathing men, unlike those of the Negrian people who live in ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Invaders from the Infinite • John Wood Campbell |