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 174
lel to the equator. Sir W. Herschel, in his numerous observations, also observed several belts, which, ingeneral, were parallel with the ring. On the 11th of Novem-ber, 1798, immediately south of the shadow of the ring uponSaturn, he perceived a bright, uniform, and broad belt, andclose to it a… … streaks, so that he saw five belts, three of which were darkand two bright. The dark belt had a yellow tinge. Thesebelts cover a larger zone of the disk of the planet than thebelts of Jupiter occupy upon his surface. With a magnifyingpower of 200 times I have sometimes seen one darkish belton the…
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