Saturn and its SystemBoD – Books on Demand, 2022 M06 22 - 300 pages Reprint of the original, first published in 1865. Containing Discussions of the Motions (Real and Apparent) and Telescopic Appearance of the Planet Saturn, Its Satellites, and Rings; The Nature of the Rings; The 'Great Inequality' of Saturn and Jupiter; And the Habitability of Saturn. To Which Are Appended Notes on Chaldean Astronomy, Laplace's Nebular Theory, and the Habitability of the Moon; A Series of Tables With Explanatory Notes; And Explanations of Astronomical Terms. |
Contents
Galileo announces that Saturn is triform | 15 |
CHAPTER II | 27 |
Alchemy | 33 |
Perplexed by Saturns Changes of Form | 38 |
Copernicus and his System | 40 |
Huygens discovers Saturns Ring | 48 |
Herschel examines the great Division | 54 |
Bond and others detect Traces of Divisions in the Rings | 61 |
Effects of Normal Disturbing Forces | 131 |
Approach to a Simple Relation of Commensurability between the Periods | 144 |
Results of the Analytical Examination of these Disturbances | 152 |
Density of Materials composing Saturns Globe not necessarily the same as | 158 |
Rapid Apparent Motions of Celestial Objects | 164 |
Apparent Outlines of the Rings viewed from different parts of Saturns Surface | 171 |
Motion of the Shadow of the Planet across the Ringshow Variable | 177 |
Eclipses of Saturns Surface by the Rings | 179 |
Observations by Carpenter and Dawes | 67 |
Saturns Volume and Density | 74 |
The Shadow of the Rings on the Planet and of the Planet on the Rings | 91 |
Changes in the Figures of the Saturnian Belts explained | 99 |
CHAPTER V | 105 |
Laplace proves that the Rings must Rotate | 112 |
Difficulties before considered disappeur on the Hypothesis that Saturns Rings | 118 |
Extraplanar Disturbances and their Effects | 124 |
Saturn and Jupiter | 128 |
36 | 184 |
Conclusion | 185 |
NOTE A CHALDEAN ASTRONOMY | 189 |
Chaldæans pot acquainted with Gravity | 195 |
Nisroch represented within a Ring | 199 |
Changes going on in Saturns RingSystem correspond with the Processos con | 206 |
Actual Changes observed from the Earth | 209 |
Cortain Solar Elements | 215 |
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