Lowell, Percival, 1855-1916 · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 147
point of disturbance is notonly that there the action throwing them out is mostviolent, but that all the time a levelling action quiteapart from disturbance is all the time tending toreduce them again to one plane, as we shall see furtheron when we come to the mechanical forces at work.Thus the… … The Tores of Saturn. Not drawn to scale. With Saturn ended the bounds of the solar system asknown to the civilized world until 1781. On March 13of that year Sir William Herschel in one of his telescopicvoyages through space came upon a strange object whichhe at once saw was not a star, because of…
Cosmogony
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