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 195
par-take of a regressive motion round the pole of the planet in aperiod exceeding 500 years. At the present time the path whichthe satellite seems to describe about its primary is so open thatthis minute object is at no time overpowered by the planetsrays ; any good telescope above 12 inches of… … F. F. TISSERAND (1845-1896) The Planets 147 and by means of photography, has shown that there is no suchbody, unless its dimensions are very minute. Neptunes spec-trum closely resembles that of Uranus, and probably the planetis surrounded by a dense atmosphere. — D. P. T. The extensive popular…
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