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Flowers of the sky (1879)

Proctor, Richard A. (Richard Anthony), 1837-1888 · New York, A.C. Armstrong and son · leaf 213

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,further, all the appearance of being laden with enor-mously deep clouds. The figure (24) shows the planet asseen by Herr Lohse gn February 5, 1872, and server TEE PLANET yUPIlER. 20l to illustrate the rounded clouds often seen in Jupitersequatorial zone, as though floating in the deep atmos-phere… … Fig. 24.—The Planet Jupiter. them. It is impossible to regard them as flat roundclouds. Manifestly they are globular. Now they maynot be quite as deep as they are long, or even broad,but supposing them only half as deep as they are broad,that would correspond to much more than a third ofthe…

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