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" What is to be said concerning so strange a metamorphosis ? Are the two lesser stars consumed after the manner of the solar spots ? Have they vanished or suddenly fled ? Has Saturn, perhaps, devoured his own children? "
The Story of the Heavens - Page 237
by Robert Stawell Ball - 1885 - 551 pages
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 40

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1857 - 588 pages
...all his observations, as having no foundation in nature. This was a trial somewhat hard to bear. " What," he remarks, "is to be said concerning so strange...metamorphosis ? Are the two lesser stars consumed, after tho manner of the solar spots? Have they vanished and suddenly fled ? Has Saturn perhaps devoured his...
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Descriptive Astronomy

George Frederick Chambers - Astronomy - 1867 - 888 pages
...4, 1612, in which he expresses his feelings on the subject, is still extant. He remarks : — "What is to be said concerning so strange a metamorphosis?...the manner of the solar spots? Have they vanished or suddenly fled? Has Saturn, perhaps, devoured his own children ? Or were the appearances • Phil....
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Belgravia: A London Magazine, Volume 33

1877 - 730 pages
...one of our powerful modern telescopes. rounded as the disc of Mars or Jupiter. ' What,' he wrote, ' is to be said concerning' so strange a metamorphosis?...the manner of the solar spots ? Have they vanished or suddenly fled ? Has Saturn, perhaps, devoured his children ? Or were the appearances indeed illusion...
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A Handbook of Descriptive Astronomy

George Frederick Chambers - Astronomy - 1877 - 968 pages
...4, 1612, in which he expresses his feelings on the subject, is still extant. He remarks : — " What is to be said concerning so strange a metamorphosis...the manner of the solar spots ? Have they vanished or suddenly fled ? Has Saturn, perhaps, devoured his own children ? Or were the appearances indeed...
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Belgravia, a London magazine, conducted by M.E. Braddon, Volume 33

Belgravia - 1877 - 696 pages
...golden-tinted disc of the planet as smoothly rounded as the disc of Mars or Jupiter. ' What,' he wrote, ' is to be said concerning so strange a metamorphosis?...the manner of the solar spots ? Have they vanished or suddenly fled ? Has Saturn, perhaps, devoured his children ? Or were the appearances indeed illusion...
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Belgravia, Volume 33

English periodicals - 1877 - 564 pages
...one of our powerful modem telescopes. rounded as the disc of Mavs or Jupiter. ' What,' he wrote, ' is to be said concerning so strange a metamorphosis...the manner of the solar spots ? Have they vanished or suddenly fled ? Has Saturn, perhaps, devoured his children ? Or were the appearances indeed illusion...
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Myths and Marvels of Astronomy

Richard Anthony Proctor - Astrology - 1878 - 498 pages
...golden-tinted disc of the planet as smoothly rounded as the disc of Mars or Jupiter. ' What,' he wrote, ' is to be said concerning so strange a metamorphosis...the manner of the solar spots ? Have they vanished or suddenlyfled ? Has Saturn, perhaps, devoured his children ? Or were the appearances, indeed, illusion...
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Flowers of the Sky

Richard Anthony Proctor - Astronomy - 1879 - 312 pages
...was perplexed beyond measure. "What is to be said concerning so strange a metamorphosis?" he asked. " Are the two lesser stars consumed after the manner of the solar spots ? Have they vanished or suddenly fled ? Has Saturn, perhaps, devoured his own children ? Or were the appearances indeed...
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A Handbook of Descriptive and Practical Astronomy: The sun, planets, and comets

George Frederick Chambers - Astronomical instruments - 1889 - 736 pages
...4, 1612, in which he expresses his feelings on the subject, is still extant. He remarks: — " What is to be said concerning so strange a metamorphosis...the manner of the solar spots ? Have they vanished or suddenly fled ? Has Saturn, perhaps, devoured his own children? Or were the appearances indeed illusion...
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The Story of the Solar System

George Frederick Chambers - Solar system - 1904 - 200 pages
...disappeared. Galileo writing to his friend, Welser, in December 1612, thus expressed himself: — " What is to be said concerning so strange a metamorphosis...the manner of the solar spots? Have they vanished or suddenly fled ? Has Saturn, perhaps, devoured his own children ? Or were the appearances indeed...
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