A text-book of general astronomy : for colleges and scientific schools (1888)
Young, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1834-1908 · Boston ; London : Ginn & Company · leaf 374
one nearest to the planet,is dusky and comparatively difficult to see. They are generally re-ferred to by Struves notation as A, B, and C, A being the exte-rior one. For nearly fifty years this appendage of Saturn was a completeenigma to astronomers. Galileo, in 1610, saw with his little tele-… … Fig. 182, — Saturn and his Rings. Not long afterwards the rings were edgewise to the earth so that theybecame invisible to him ; and in his perplexity he inquired whetherSaturn had devoured his children, according to the legend. Hny- * 362 SATURN. ghens, in 1655, was the first to solve the problem…
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