. The beauties of nature and the wonders of the world we live in. Natural history; Physical geography; Astronomy. THE STARRY HEAVENS 395 SATURN" Next to Jupiter in size, as in position, comes Saturn, wliicli, tliougir far inferior in dimensions, is much superior in beauty. To tlie nailed eye Saturn appears as a brilliant star, but when Galileo first saw it through a telescope it appeared to him to be composed of three bodies in a line, a cerLtral glolje with a small one on each side. Huyghens in 1655. Kg. 53. —Saturn. first showed that in reality Saturn was sur- rounded by a series of rin
. The beauties of nature and the wonders of the world we live in. Natural history; Physical geography; Astronomy. THE STARRY HEAVENS 395 SATURN" Next to Jupiter in size, as in position, comes Saturn, wliicli, tliougir far inferior in dimensions, is much superior in beauty. To tlie nailed eye Saturn appears as a brilliant star, but when Galileo first saw it through a telescope it appeared to him to be composed of three bodies in a line, a cerLtral glolje with a small one on each side. Huyghens in 1655. Kg. 53. —Saturn. first showed that in reality Saturn was sur- rounded by a series of rings (see Fig. 53). Of these there are three, the inner one very faint, and the outer one divided into two by a dark line. These rings are really enormous shoals of minute l)odies revolving round the planet, and rendering it perhaps the most. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Lubbock, John, Sir, 1834-1913. New York, London, Macmillan and Co.
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