Mattison, Hiram, 1811-1868 · New York, Huntington and Savage, Mason and Law · leaf 98
ard usseems to be thrown up, while for the next fifteen it ap-pears to drop oelow the apparent center of the planet. TELESCOPIC PHASES OF THE RINGS OF SATURN. •« Jf <q»2>X [The cause of these varying appearances of Saturn will be easily understood by ex-amining the next cut and the… … [1. Here observe, first, that tlie axis of Saturn, like those of all the other planets,remains permanent, or parallel with itself; and as the rings are in the plane of hisequator, and at right angles with his axis, they also must remain parallel to them-selves, whatever position the planet may…
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