Olmsted, Denison, 1791-1859. [from old catalog] · New York, R. B. Collins · leaf 210
Breadth of the inner ring, - 17,000 Interval between the rings, - 1,800 Breadth of the outer ring, - - - - 10,500 Extreme dimensions from outside to outside, - 1*76,000 The figure represents Saturn as it appears to a power-ful telescope, surrounded by its rings, and having itsbody striped with dark… … broader and less strongly marked than those of Jupiter,and owing doubtless to a similar cause. That the ringis a solid opake substance, is shown by its throwing itsshadow on the body of the planet on the side nearestthe sun, and on the other side receiving that of the body.From the parallelism of…
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