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The heavens and their story (1910)

Maunder, Annie S. D. (Annie Scot Dill), b. 1868, Maunder, E. Walter (Edward Walter), 1851-1928 · London, C.H. Kelly · leaf 226

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ave been. The most remarkable of all the spots on Jupiter isshown on the first painting by Mr. Phillips, in thesouthern hemisphere of the planet. It is called the Great Red Spot, and is the large grey oblong, lyingin a white cup, which seems to have hollowed a broaddark band, lying to its north, as… … JUPITER, 190S Feb. 10 13 35 G.M.T.,by the Rev. T. E. R. Phillips. 2og THE PLANET JUPITER 211 in the past. It has had a long history, if not a continuousone. The ingenious Mr. Hooke observed it in the daysof Charles II. It appeared and vanished eight timesbetween the years 1665 and 1708, and then it…

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