Giberne, Agnes, 1845- [from old catalog] · Cincinnati, National book company · leaf 34
at huge ballof fire. The first attentive observer of the sun, Scheiner,at first regarded the spots as satellites—an indefensi-ble opinion, which, however, some have attempted torevive. Galileo attributed them to clouds or vaporsfloating in the solar atmosphere; this was the best THB HEAD OF OUR… … SUN SPOTS. Lalande, believed, on the contrary, that they weremountains, of which the flanks, more or less steep,might produce the aspect of the penumbra—an opin-ion irreconcilable with the proper motion which thespots sometimes possess in a very marked manner.It is not usual, in fact, to see…
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