 | Science - 1900 - 776 pages
...earth is turning once upon its axis. A point on Jupiter's equator moves about twenty-seven thousand miles, or considerably more than the entire circumference...the greatest pleasures that the telescope affords. It would be possible, when the planet is favorably situated, to witness an entire rotation of Jupiter... | |
 | Garrett Putman Serviss - Astronomy - 1901 - 220 pages
...earth is rolling once upon its axis. A point on Jupiter's equator moves about twentyseven thousand miles, or considerably more than the entire circumference...the greatest pleasures that the telescope affords. It would be possible, when the planet is favorably situated, to witness an entire rotation of Jupiter... | |
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... once upon its axis. A point on Jupiter's equator moves about twenty-seven thousand miles, or considerably more than the entire circumference of the earth, in a single hour. The effect of this motion is clearly perceptible to the observer with a telescope... 