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 337
blevariety to the scenery exhibited by the different objects whichwill successively appear in the course of the rotation. The numerous splendid objects displayed in the heavens,as seen from these rings, would afford a grand and diversifiedfield for telescopic observations, surpassing in variety… … The preceding figure (CXIV.) represents a view of thenrmament from one of the sides of the rings, in which isseen half of the hemisphere of Saturn, with a portion of theopposite sides of the rings projecting, as it were, from eachside of the planet, the central part being hidden by the…
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