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 236
cientplanetary system, revolves another grand planet, calledSaturn. His distance from us is sometimes nearly athousand millions of miles, and he requires more thana quarter of a century for the completion of each revo- SAITKN AND HIS KINGS. 223 lution. Sometimes people do not pronounce the namesof… … Pig. (>s. — Saturn and the Earth compared. ancients had discovered Saturn to be a planet, forthough he looked like a star, yet his movement throughthe constellations could not escape4 their notice whenattention was paid to the heavens. In the matter of size Saturn is only surpassed byJupiter…
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