 | 1866 - 632 pages
...the double character of its ring. " There is not, perhaps," said this great and sound astronomer, " another object in the heavens that presents us with...of extraordinary phenomena as the planet Saturn : a magnifieent globe encompassed by a stupendous double ring ; attended by seven satellites; ornamented... | |
 | 1884 - 536 pages
...the double character of its ring. "There is not, perhaps," said this great and sound astronomer, " another object in the heavens that presents us with...equatorial belts; compressed at the poles ; turning on its axis ; mutually eclipsing its rings and satellites, and eclipsed by them ; the most distant... | |
 | E. A. Selley - 1907 - 456 pages
...ever 'looked through a telescopic tube, Sir William Herschel, says of Saturn : " There is not perhaps another object in the heavens that presents us with...stupendous double ring ; attended by seven satellites (really 10) ; ornamented with equatorial belts ; compressed at the poles ; turning on its axis ; mutually... | |
 | 1865 - 514 pages
...by Sir W. Herschel in an admirable passage quoted by Mr. Proctor (pp. 60 & 61) : — " There is not another object in the heavens that presents us with...equatorial belts; compressed at the poles ; turning on its axis ; mutually eclipsing its rings and satellites, and eclipsed by them ; the most distant... | |
 | 1806 - 426 pages
...on the singular Figure of the Planet Saturn. By WILLIAM HERSCHKLL, LL.DFRS* J. HBRE is not perhaps another object in the heaVens that presents us with such a variety of extraordinary phenomena * F,-om the Jrcouaclions nftht Rci/al Sucicty-fer 1805. K 2 «9 148 Ohservatiorts on the singular Figure... | |
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There is not, perhaps," said this great and sound astronomer, " another object in the heavens that presents us with such a variety of extraordinary phenomena as the planet Saturn ; a magnificent globe encompassed by a stupendous double ring ; attended... 
