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Cosmos, etc. ... / translated [by Mrs. E.J. Sabine] under the superintendence of Lieut.-Col. E. Sabine [the editor].

  • Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859
Date:
1847-1848
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    B. Special considerations; or notice of the several planets in their relation to the Sun as the central body of the solar domain. The Sun, p. 344—346. Mercury, p. 346—348. Venus—spots, p. 348—351. Barth—numerical data, p. 351. The Barth's Satellite; gives light and heat; ashy-grey light, or earth-light on the moon; spots ; character of the moon’s surface—mountains and plains; measured elevations ; prevailing circular type of formation; craters of elevation without continued phenomena of eruption; ancient traces of the reaction of the interior against the exterior or surface ; the absence of a fluid element, and therefore of Sun- and Earth-tides and of currents, and the probable geognostical consequences, p. 351—368 and cxxvi.—cxxxiii. Notes 562—596. Mars—ellipticity, appearance of surface altered by change of season, p. 369—371. The Small Planets, p. 371—875. Jupiter—Time of rotation, spots, and belts, p. 375—378 ; Satellites of Jupiter, p. 379—381. Saturn—Belts, rings, excentric position, p. 381—385 ; Satellites of Saturn, p. 385—387. Uranus, p. 387—388; Satellites of Uranus, p. 388—390. Neptune — Discovery and elements, p. 390 — 392 and cxxxix.—cxl. Note 640 ; Satellites of Neptune, p. 392—393. III. Comets:—With exceedingly small mass occupy enormous space; external form ; periods of revolution; bi-partition of a comet; elements of the interior comets, p. 394—412, and cxli. to cl., Notes 645—678. ]