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 215
h is one of thebest known regions of the planet, also a dark, oval, isolated spot,about 530 miles in its longest diameter, and formerly called veryappropriately the Oculus/ or eye of Mars. First observed byMaedler in 1830, charted as Terby Sea on Greens map, it isnow known as Solis Lacus, after… … MARS AS SEEN WITH THE 30-INCH TELESCOPEAT NICE, 2D JULY 1888 (PERROTIN) The Rteddy Planet 165 and very dark. Mr Douglass has still farther subdivided it(page 166). Schiaparelli has often seen a large part of theplanets disk, particularly near the polar regions, sprinkled withminute white spots, for…
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