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Stars and telescopes; a hand-book of popular astronomy, founded on the 9th ed. of Lynn's Celestial motions (1899)

Todd, David P. (David Peck), 1855-1939, Lynn, William Thynne, 1835-1911. Celestial motions · Boston, Little, Brown and company · leaf 172

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near thenorth pole of IV. Mr Barnards new fifthsatellite was discoveredwith the telescope hereshown, the chief instrumentof the great observatoryfounded by James Lick in1875 (P-T.22)- It: has not yetbeen seen with any telescopeof less than 183 inches ap-erture ; and the eclipses ofthis minute body,… … THE LICK TELESCOPE with which Jupiter*s $th satellite was discovered {Lens 1 ft. i7i diameter. Ttibe 57ft. long) 126 Stars and Telescopes other planets put together, while his volume is aboutone and a half times as great as the aggregate of allthe rest. The compression of the figure of Saturn isthe…

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