The Planet Jupiter
1871; Nature Portfolio; Volume: 3; Issue: 74 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1038/003430a0
ISSN1476-4687
Autores Tópico(s)History and Developments in Astronomy
ResumoSINCE the earliest days of telescopic investigation, there has never been a period in which this magnificent planet has been subjected to such an extended scrutiny as the present. Telescopes of all sizes and powers, and eyes of all degrees of sensitiveness and accuracy, are being directed night after night—or rather would be so, but for the proverbial uncertainty of our English climate—towards the splendid gem of the south-eastern heaven. Such is the natural result of that unexampled diffusion of a taste for astronomy, and of the equally unprecedented multiplication of telescopes of considerable pretensions, which is characteristic of the present time, and which is so gratifying to the lovers of physical science.
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