 | Christian life - 1835 - 480 pages
...the body of the planet on the side nearest the sun, and on the other side receiving that of the body. From the parallelism of the belts with the plane of...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 - Astronomy - 1839 - 300 pages
...the body of the planet on the side nearest the sun and on the other side receiving that of the body. From the parallelism of the belts with the plane of...extensive dusky spots on its surface, which when watched indicate a rotation parallel to the ring in lOh. 29m. 17s. This motion, it will be remarked, is nearly... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Astronomy - 1839 - 308 pages
...the body of the planet on the side nearest the sun and on the other side receiving that of the body. From the parallelism of the belts with the plane of...extensive dusky spots on its surface, which when watched indicate a rotation parallel to the ring in lOh. 29m. 17s. This motion, it will be remarked, is nearly... | |
 | Ezra Otis Kendall - Astronomy - 1845 - 408 pages
...and on the 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 - Astronomy - 1849 - 672 pages
...broader and less strongly marked than those of Jupiter, and owing, doubtless, to a similar cause.f That the ring is a solid opake substance is shown...and this conjecture is confirmed by the occasional * These dimensions are calculated from Prof. Struvo's micromctric measures, Mem. Art. Soc. iii. 3U1,... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1851 - 706 pages
...broader and less strongly marked than those of Jupiter, and owing, doubtless, to a similar cause, f That the ring is a solid opake substance is shown...appearance of extensive dusky spots on its surface, which * These dimensions are calculated from Prof. Struve's micrometric measures, Mem. Art. Sue. iii. 301.,... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Astronomy - 1855 - 318 pages
...the body of the planet on the side nearest the sun, and on the other side receiving that of the body. From the parallelism of the belts with the plane of...extensive dusky spots on its surface, which when watched indicate a rotation parallel to the ring in lOh. 29m. 17s. This motion, it will be remarked, is nearly... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Astronomy - 1858 - 318 pages
...body of the planet on the side nearest the sun, and on the other side receiving that of the body. Prom the parallelism of the belts with the plane of the...extensive dusky spots on its surface, which when watched indicate a rotation parallel to the ring in lOh. 29m. 17s. This motion, it will be remarked, is nearly... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Robinson - Astronomy - 1859 - 424 pages
...substance, is shown by its throwing its shadow on the body of the planet, on the side nearest the sun, und on the other side receiving that of the body, as shown...of extensive dusky spots on its surface, which when vatched, like the spots on Mars or Jupiter, indicate a rotation in 10 h. 29 m. 17 s. about an axis... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1861 - 588 pages
...marked than those of Jupiter, and owing, doubtless, to a similar cause.1 That the ring is a solid opa\e substance is shown by its throwing its shadow on the...occasional appearance of extensive dusky spots on ita surface, which when watched, like the spots on Mars or Jupiter, indicate a rotation in 10" 29™... | |
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... and less strongly marked than those of Jupiter, and owing doubtless to a similar cause. That the ring is a solid opake substance, is shown by its throwing its shadow on the body of the planet on the side nearest the sun, and on the other side receiving... 