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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 156

An illustration from A treatise on astronomy, descriptive, physical and practical. Designed for schools, colleges, and private students, 1849, leaf 156 — their whole circumference, as they are from the planet bya much wider. The dimensions of this extraordinary appendage areas follows : Exterior diameter of exterior ring, = 176418. Interior ditto, = 155272. Exterior diameter of interior ring, = 151690. Interior ditto, = 117339. Equatorial diameter… … The figure represents Saturn surrounded by its rings, and having its The ringsbody striped with dark belts, somewhat similar, but broader and less are °Pakestrongly marked than those of Jupiter, and owing, doubtless, to a simi-lar cause. That the ring is a solid opake substance, is shown by…

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