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 179
tion in a generalway of the phenomena of 1861-62, and with Saturn very favor-ably placed for observation. Our present knowledge of the constitution of the Saturnianrings has been attained through the researches of La Place,who showed that the rings could not be solid, because even theattractions of… … Beyond the orbit of Saturn are two large planets,Uranus and Neptune, the existence of which was not to the view that theymust be fluid; and ofClerk Maxwellwhose researches in1857 showed the incon-clusiveness of both pre-viously mentioned hy-potheses, and estab-lished on a firm basisthe present…
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