Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 326
sphere. This spec-tacle was first observed by the Jesuit Ricciolo, anopponent of the Copernican theory, on January 9th,1643. He describes the planet as ruddy near the sun,yellowish in the middle, and of greenish blue on theside remote from the sun; while he also noted the bowof light limiting the… … Venus at her Greatest Brilliancy. 292 Wonders of Earth, Sea, and Sky 1715, and six years later by Kirch, in BerHn, who hasthe following entry in his diary for Saturday, June 29,1721: — I found Venus in a region where the skywas not very clear. The planet was narrow, and Iseemed to see its dark…
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