 Jupiter ; it then gradually diminished in splendor, and having exhibited all the variety of tints that indicate the changes of combustion, vanished sixteen months after its discovery, without altering its position. It is impossible to imagine anything...  Mechanism of the Heavens - Page lxivby Mary Somerville - 1831 - 621 pagesFull view - About this book
 | sir Richard Phillips - 1868 - 354 pages
...appeared, shone with a bright light, and vanished. In AD 1572, a star was discovered in the constellation Cassiopeia, which rapidly increased in brightness...Jupiter ; it then gradually diminished in splendour, and in sixteen mouths disappeared. It has been supposed that this resulted from a conflagration of the... | |
 | Louis Antoine Godey, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1852 - 1216 pages
...reappeared, and, after many variations in light, vanished after two years, and has never since been teen. In 1572, a star was discovered in Cassiopeia, which...surpassed that of Jupiter; It then gradually diminished in splendor, and, after exhibiting all the variety of tints that indicates the changes of combustion,... | |
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