Elementary astronomy; a beginner's text-book (1899)
Holden, Edward Singleton, 1846-1914 · New York, H. Holt and company · leaf 360
ined a mystery to its first ob-server. In 1610 he had seen the planet accompanied, as he supposed,by two lateral stars ; in 1612 the latter had vanished and the centralbody alone remained. Galileo inquired whether Saturn haddevoured his children, according to the legend. It was not until 1655… … Fig. 186.—The Planet Saturn. 1° as it sometimes appears to an observer on the Earth; 2° as it would appear to an observer over the polar region of the planet. 336 ASTRONOMY. He announced his conclusions in the following logogriph : aaaaaa ccccc d eeeee g h iiiiiii 1111 mm nnnnnnnnn oooo pp q rr…
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