| Sir John Frederick William Herschel - 1833 - 444 pages
...the side nearest the sun, and on the other side receiving that of the body, as shown in the figure. From the parallelism of the belts with the plane of...extensive dusky spots on its surface, which, when watched, like the spots on Mars or Jupiter, indicate a rotation in 10h 29m 17s about an axis so situated. (442.)... | |
| sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - 500 pages
...the side nearest the sun, and on the other side receiving that of the body, as shown in the figure. From the parallelism of the belts with the plane of...extensive dusky spots on its surface, which, when watched, like the spots on Mars or Jupiter, indicate a rotation in 10h 29m 17s about an axis so situated. (442.)... | |
| 1835 - 480 pages
...marked than those of Jupiter, and owing doubtless to a similar cause. That the ring is a solid opaque substance, is shown by its throwing its shadow on...occasional appearance of extensive dusky spots on his surface, which, when watched, like the spots of mars and Jupiter, indicate a rotation in ten hours... | |
| Denison Olmsted - 1839 - 300 pages
...249. Saturn. — State his diameter and volume, number of satellites, Ring, distance from the sun. and less strongly marked than those of Jupiter, and...17s. This motion, it will be remarked, is nearly the same with the diurnal motion of Jupiter, subjecting places on the equator of the planet to a very swift... | |
| Ezra Otis Kendall - 1845 - 408 pages
...opposite side the ring receives the shadow cast by the body of the planet, as represented in the figure. From the parallelism of the belts with the plane of the ring, it might be conjectured that the axis about which 'the planet revolves is perpendicular to that plane;... | |
| John Frederick William Herschel - 1849 - 672 pages
...the side nearest the sun, and on the other side receiving that of the body, as shown in the figure. From the parallelism of the belts with the plane of...and this conjecture is confirmed by the occasional * These dimensions are calculated from Prof. Struvo's micromctric measures, Mem. Art. Soc. iii. 3U1,... | |
| Horatio Nelson Robinson - 1850 - 370 pages
...the side nearest the sun, and on the other side receiving that of the body, as shown in the figure. From the parallelism of the belts with the plane of the ring, at may be conjectured' that the axis of rotation of the planet is perpendicular to that plane ; and... | |
| John Frederick William Herschel - 1851 - 706 pages
...the side nearest the sun, and on the other side receiving that of the body, as shown in the figure. From the parallelism of the belts with the plane of...appearance of extensive dusky spots on its surface, which * These dimensions are calculated from Prof. Struve's micrometric measures, Mem. Art. Sue. iii. 301.,... | |
| John Frederick William Herschel - 1853 - 608 pages
...the side nearest the BUD, and on the other side receiving that of the body, as shown in the figure. From the parallelism of the belts with the plane of...extensive dusky spots on its surface, which when watched, like the Bjjots on Mars or Jupiter, indicate a rotation in lO* 29" 17" about an axis so situated. W... | |
| Denison Olmsted - 1855 - 318 pages
...distance from the sun. * A third ring, less luminous than the other two. has recently been iioAnvAiiArl broader and less strongly marked than those of Jupiter,...17s. This motion, it will be remarked, is nearly the same with the diurnal motion of Jupiter, subjecting places on the equator of the planet to a very swift... | |
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