Astronomy for schools; upon the basis of Mons. Arago's lectures at the Royal observatory of Paris .. (1841)
Arago, F. (François), 1786-1853, Haskins, Roswell William, [from old catalog] ed · New York, Robinson, Pratt & co.; · leaf 144
while at others no less thaneight are visible. Frequently these are not parallel,one to another; and often, also, they are of variablelengths. Sometimes they are seen to extend, andsometimes to contract their dimensions. The time oftheir duration, also, varies much. Some of these bandshave been… … SATURN. 141 Fig. 26. ing them the appearance of havingbeen broken off, and displaced. Thespots and the bands which were ob-served upon Jupiters disk on the 7thof April, 1792, are represented infig. 25. These bands are supposedto be portions of the body of the pla-net; and the luminous parts to…
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