Berry, Arthur,b. 1862 · London, J. Murray · leaf 202
on the sun of such blemishes as black spots,the mutability involved in their changes in form andposition, and their formation and subsequent disappearance,were all distasteful to the supporters of the old views, * In a letter of May 4th, 1612, he says that he has seen them foreighteen months; in… … Fig. 55. —Sun-spots. From Galileis Macchie Solari. [To face p. 154. $$ 123,124] Phases of Venus: Sim-spots 155 according to which celestial bodies were perfect and un-changeable. The fact, noticed by all the early observers,that the spots appeared to move across the face of the sunfrom the eastern…
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