A short course in astronomy and the use of the globes (1871)
Kiddle, Henry, 1824-1891 · New York, Chicago, Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & co. · leaf 99
he Latin word for handles. Huyghens, in 1659, discoveredthe real cause of the phenomenon, and announced it in these words: The planet is surrounded by a slender, fiat ring, everywhere dis-tinct from its surface, and inclined to the ecliptic. The divisionof the ring into two was discovered by an… … TELESCOPIC VIEW OF SATURN.- The accompanying figure represents the planet as seen through avery powerful telescope, showing the dark ring, the divisionbetween the two main rings, and the line in the outer ring, whichindicates the existence of an additional ring. SATuny. 07, 142. These rings rotate…
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