Stars and telescopes; a hand-book of popular astronomy founded on the 9th ed. of Lynn's Celestial motions (1901)
Todd, David P. (David Peck), 1855-1939, Lynn, William Thynne, 1835-1911 · Boston, Little, Brown · leaf 168
y increase till1914. The mass of Saturn is 3^5 tnat °f tne Sun, as deter-mined by Professor A. Hall, junr, from observations with theYale heliometer in 1S85-7. So slight is the density of the planetthat it would float in water; probably, as surmised in the caseof Jupiter, the real Saturn is very… … SATURN, WITH ITS RINGS IN VARIOUS PHASES [Scale, about 70,000 miles to the inch. Neglecting unimportant technical details, theseare the appearances of the planet, as viewed with an inverting telescope ; in 1891 and1007 {lower figure), in 1895 and 1902 (middle), and in 1899 (upper figure). From…
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