List, C, Hall, T. G. (Thomas Grainger), 1803-1881 · Philadelphia : Thomas Cowperthwait & Co. and Carey & Hart · leaf 108
when observed with a telescope, is al-ways found to be marked with stripes, which arecalled its belts. They are usually three or fourin number; but their number and appearance un-dergo changes from time to time. They areusually supposed to be clouds, drawn into the shapewhich they assume by the… … Owing to Us great distance, the sun must appear 104 OUTLINES OF ASTRONOMY. much smaller as seen from Jupiter, than it appearsto us. But as some compensation, the planet hasfour satellites or moons, which are not very dif-ferent in size from our moon, and move round thatbody in two, three, seven,…
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