Celestial scenery, or, The Wonders of the planetary system displayed : illustrating the perfections of deity and a plurality of worlds (1845)
Dick, Thomas, 1774-1857, Parker, E. S., former owner. DSI, David H. DeVorkin Collection (Smithsonian Institution. Libraries) DSI · Philadelphia : Published by Edward C. Biddle · leaf 163
ich wascomprehended between the two dark belts had assumed a darkgray colour, bordering upon yellow. The northern dark beltthen received a sudden increase of size, while the southernone became partly extinguished, and afterward increased intoan uninterrupted belt. The luminous belts also suffered… … Fig. XLIX. represents a view of Jupiters belts by Cassini.Fig. L. a view from Dr. Hook, as delineated in the Philo-sophical Transactions for 1666, which was taken by a sixtyfeet refracting telescope. The small black spot on the middlebelt, which did not appear at the beginning of the…
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