 | Charles Brockden Brown - 1806 - 498 pages
...his profession." For the Literary Magazine. THE PLANET SATURN. THERE is not, says Dr. Herschell, any object in the heavens that presents us with such a...equatorial belts ; compressed at the poles ; turning on its axis ; mutually eclipsing its ring and satellites, and eclipsed by them ; the most distant of... | |
 | Hervey Wilbur - 1831 - 170 pages
...Hcrschel, as quoted by Bonnycastle ? Herschel, " another olijcct in the heavens that presents us with euch a variety of extraordinary phenomena as the planet...stupendous double ring ; attended by seven satellites i ornamented with equatorial belts; compressed at the poles; turning on its axis; mutually eclipsing... | |
 | Hervey Wilbur - 1834 - 172 pages
...appear in Saturn. * Hrrschel, as quoted by Bcmnycaetle 7 Herschel, " another object in the heavent thnt presents us with such a variety of extraordinary phenomena...equatorial belts ; compressed at the poles ; turning on its axis ; mutually eclipsing its rings and satellites, and eclipsed by them ; the most distant... | |
 | John Vose - 1834 - 230 pages
...our Moon, it revolved on its axis at the same time that it performed a revolution round its primary. "There is not, perhaps," says Dr. Herschel, "another...variety of extraordinary phenomena, as the planet Saturn j> a magnificent globe, encompassed by a stupendous double ring; attended by seven satellites; ornamented... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1838 - 160 pages
...to reflect the solar light upon the planet, especially that part which is turned away from the sun. There is not, perhaps, says Dr. Herschel, another...seven satellites; ornamented with equatorial belts; turning upon its axis; mutually eclipsing its ring and satellites, and eclipsed by them; and all the... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - 1838 - 268 pages
...sufficient, that they are adapted to each other. Of this planet Dr. Herschel says, " There is not perhaps 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 ; all parts of the system of Saturn occasionally... | |
 | 1865 - 1144 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 mofct distant... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1865 - 302 pages
...by his own account of the features of the Saturnian system :—' There is not, perhaps,' he says, ' 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 of... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1865 - 312 pages
...his own account of the features of the Saturnian system : — ' There is not, perhaps,' he says, ( another object in the heavens that presents us with such a variety of extra* The best modern telescopes, under favourable circumstances, exhibit the dark belta as of a faint... | |
 | 1866 - 900 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...: a magnificent globe encompassed by a stupendous doublering; attended by seven satellites ; ornamented with equatorial belts ; compressed at the poles... | |
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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... 
