Star-land; being talks with young people about the wonders of the heavens (1899)
Ball, Robert Stawell, Sir, 1840- [from old catalog] · Boston and London, Ginn & company · leaf 227
sun that the light which illuminatesit is excessively feeble ; and, secondly, because it is sofar from us that whatever brilliancy it has is largelyreduced. 214 STAR-LAND. JUPITER. Of all these bodies Jupiter is by far the greatest;he is, indeed, greater than all the other planets rolledinto one.… … eQ Fig. 66.— Jupiter and the Earth compared. as large as the greatest of the planets. A view of thecomparative sizes of the earth and Jupiter is shown inFig. 66. Fig. 67 shows a picture of Jupiter as seen throughthe telescope. First, you will notice that the outline ofthe planets shape is not…
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