Flammarion, Camille, 1842-1925, Welby, Frances A. (Frances Alice) tr · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 169
y-seventimes less light and heat than we obtain. In the telescope Jupiter presents an aspect analogousto that likely to be exhibited by a world covered withclouds, and enveloped in dense vapors (Fig. 45). 149 ASTRONOMY FOR AMATEURS It is, in fact, the seat of formidable perturbations,of strange… … Fig. 45.—Telescopic aspect of Jupiter. considerable volume, this globe has probably preservedits original heat, revolving in space as an obscure Sun,but perhaps still burning. In it we see what our ownplanet must have been in its primordial epoch, in thepristine times of terrestrial genesis. 150…
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