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 190
ing greatly from ours; and the presence of these bandsaccounts for the invariable sea-green tint of the planet. Thesubstance producing the absorption is not yet identified, andthe darkest band, about midway between C and D, is also-shown in exactly the same position in the spectra of Jupiterand… … 2 I> ■8 142 Stars and Telescopes planet. The question as to the nature of the causewas soon settled by the rapidly increasing deviation ofUranus from the course marked out for it by the Tablesbased upon observations between 1781 and 1821 ;nor could it reasonably be doubted that the causewas the…
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