Giberne, Agnes, 1845- [from old catalog] · Cincinnati, National book company · leaf 213
a more lavishamount of the same. Picturing the moons as giving light to Jupiter, wefind them seemingly dim and weak for such a pur-pose—though, of course, we may here make a grandmistake in supposing the eyesight of living creaturesin Jupiter to be no better than our own eyesight. 2o8 STORY OF THE… … THE SYSTEM OF JUPITER. to make up for the lessened amount of light and heatreceived from the sun, the matter becomes more easyto our understanding. The nearest moon has indeed a magnificent viewof Jupiter as a huge bright disk in its sky, no less JUPITER. 209 than three thousand times as large as…
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