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The phenomena and order of the solar system (1843)

Nichol, J. P. (John Pringle), 1804-1859 · New York : Dayton & Newman · leaf 135

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e have unfolded ; but there are intimationswithal, of some correspondence between Jupiter and thesenearer globes. The mean density of the mass of thisplanet being not much more than the weight of water, wecannot conceive that water, if developed in Jupiter, occu-pies the position in which we find… … SATURN. 105 curious forms. It seems probable that a current sets fromthe poles to the equator of Jupiter, as on this earth ; andthat the very operation which produces our trade-winds(see figure of the Earth in Plate XII. where the apparentaspects of these winds are exhibited) throws them…

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