Proctor, Richard A. (Richard Anthony), 1837-1888 · New York, A.C. Armstrong and son · leaf 164
s were inreahty separated by a distance exceeding some sixteentimes that which separated us from the nearer of the two. I propose now to consider some of the more interest-ing characteristics of these two planets, presenting speciallythose features which mark Saturn as the representativeof one… … THE PLAXET MARS, 153 to the portion of his path where he was most favourablyseen, there was nothing specially remarkable about theapproach of Saturn on that occasion, whereas Mars inthe year 1877 made a nearer approach to the earththan he has for thirty-two years past, or will for someforty-seven…
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