Proctor, Richard A. (Richard Anthony), 1837-1888 · New York, A.C. Armstrong and son · leaf 220
2o8 ^^f^iMd^ET ^uPiTeA Now^ let us consider the second observation mentioned above.- ESTABLISHED ,-75, | On Thursday) June 26, 1828, the secong satellite ofJupiter w^s ^foj^t to make a passage across the planetsface. It was^i^^rvTO^fiT^^fbre this passage or transitbegan, in the position shown in… … Fig. 27. Fig. 28. Fig. 29. disappeared. The reader must understand that the moonwas not hiding itself behind the planet, but was on thisside of it, and simply lost to view because its brightnesswas the same, or very nearly the same, as that of theplanet^s edge. (Its place is show^n in fig. 28, but…
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