"Zeta" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Douglas, had said to Hugh in passing, "We've got our eye on you, Carver," and that was all that had been said. Carl did not have even that much consolation. But he wasn't so much interested in Nu Delta as Hugh was; Kappa Zeta or Alpha Sigma would do as well. Both of these fraternities were making violent efforts to get Hugh, but they were paying only polite ...
— The Plastic Age • Percy Marks
... the front wheels of the Chariot generally known as the "pointers;" [gamma] and [delta] the hind wheels; [epsilon], [zeta], [eta] the three horses. All these stars are of the second order of magnitude (the specific meaning of this expression will be explained in the next chapter), except the last ([delta]) of the quadrilateral, which is of the ...
— Astronomy for Amateurs • Camille Flammarion
... you inform me who were the writers in the Lyra Apostolica who assumed the letters [alpha], [beta], [gamma], [delta], [epsilon], [zeta]? ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 231, April 1, 1854 • Various
... barefoot, and mother dear will scrub The neighbors' dirty linen within a sudsy tub, And Jane will wear no Sunday hat, and Jim no Sunday tie, So Sam can go to Harvard to adorn the Zeta Psi. ...
— Cap and Gown - A Treasury of College Verse • Selected by Frederic Knowles
... Those refracted Rays which are partly refracted towards E & [epsilon]. and there paint an Iris 1 2 3 4 5. denoting the five consecutions of colours Red, Yellow, Green, Blew, and Purple; and are partly reflected towards F & [zeta]. ...
— Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours (1664) • Robert Boyle
... of known revolving pairs is Delta Equulei. The components are so close that only the finest instruments can separate them, and this they cannot do at all times. They accomplish a revolution in eleven and a half years. The slowest revolving pair is Zeta Aquarii. The motion of the components is so tardy that to complete a circuit of their orbits they require a period of about sixteen centuries. Other binary stars have had different periods assigned to ...
— The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' • Thomas Orchard
... stars of this type is [zeta] Puppis (Od), in the spectrum of which PICKERING discovered a previously unknown series of helium lines. They were at first attributed (by RYDBERG) to hydrogen and were ...
— Lectures on Stellar Statistics • Carl Vilhelm Ludvig Charlier |
