Proctor, Richard A. (Richard Anthony), 1837-1888 · New York, A.C. Armstrong and son · leaf 235
not, when Sir W. Herschel observed it,so narrow as it is shown in fig. 31. In fact the ring hadbeen turned edgewise to the earth two years before; andwhen Herschel noticed the abnormal appearance of THE RINGED PLANET SATURN. 223 baturn, the rings had begun to open out, though thenoutermost outline… … Fig. 31.—Saturns square-shouldered aspect. spheroidal figure. Herschel tested his observations byusing several telescopes of different dimensions,—ten,seven, twenty, and forty feet in length. In 1818, whenthe rings were scarcely visible, Kitchener saw the planetas shown in fig. 31, or ^…
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