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Saturn's Rings.
XIII.
THE STRUCTURE OF SATURN'S RINGS
Galileo pointed to the system of Jupiter, as exhibiting the solar system in miniature, but, had he had adequate optical power, he could have pointed more triumphantly to that of Saturn. On the first discovery of the rings, they were regarded as a breach of uniformity in the solar system, but all subsequent discovery has tended to fill up the gap, and to shew that there is a sameness of pattern throughout the
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