Star-land : being talks with young people about the wonders of the heavens (1891)
Ball, Robert S. (Robert Stawell), Sir, 1840-1913 · London ; Paris : Cassell & Co. · leaf 223
be satisfactorily explained.Confirmation flowed in from other sources, and thus thediscovery of the velocity of light was completely estab-lished. 208 Star-Laxd. SATURN. Next outside Jupiter on the confines of the ancientplanetary system revolves another grand planet, calledSaturn. His distance… … Fig. 6G.—Saturn and Earth compared. quite correctly. I have heard of a gardener who has ataste for astronomy, and sometimes begins to talk aboutthe planets Juniper and Citron. Probably you will knowwhat he meant to say. The ancients had discoveredSaturn to be a planet, for though he looked like a…
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