Astronomy for the use of schools and academies (1882)
Gillet, J. A. (Joseph Anthony), 1837-1908, Rolfe, W. J. (William James), 1827-1910 · New York : Potter, Ainsworth, & Co. · leaf 295
g on each side ofSaturn, at least in places where two such reflections comenearly together. Fig. 299 illustrates this reflection from theedges at the divisions of the rings. 273. Changes in Saturns Ring. — The question whetherchanges are going on in the rings of Saturn is still unsettled.Some… … Fig. 299. Professor Newcomb says, -As seen with the great Wash-ington equatorial in the autumn of 1874, there was no great orsudden contrast between the inner or dark edge of the brightring and the outer edge of the dusky ring. There was somesuspicion that the one shaded into the other by…
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