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A treatise on astronomy, descriptive, physical and practical. Designed for schools, colleges, and private students (1849)

Robinson, Horatio N. (Horatio Nelson), 1806-1867 · Albany, N.Y., E.H. Pease & Co.; [etc., etc.] · leaf 153

An illustration from A treatise on astronomy, descriptive, physical and practical. Designed for schools, colleges, and private students, 1849, leaf 153 — nowledge of their real diameters. All of these planets are invisible to the naked eye, exceptVesta, which sometimes can be seen as a star of the 5th or6th magnitude. (141.) Jupiter. We now come to the most magnificentplanet in the system — the well-known Jupiter—which isnearly 1300 times the… … These belts are, however, by no means alike at all times; theyvary in breadth and in situation on the disc (though never in theirgeneral direction). They have even been seen broken up, and distri-buted over the whole face of the planet: but this phenomenon is ex-tremely rare. Branches running out…

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