The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1884-02-23
THE SOLAR SYSTEM.
An Evening with Other Worlds.
Iscientiic American.

as above WAS lately delivered before
the American Astronomical Society.
Brooklyn, n. Y, by Mr.. Garrett 2.
Servi-s, of the editorial staff OF The
New York sun. This gentleman has
an attractive style OF delivery. wide
command of language, aud rare
power of interesting his audiences.
The large hail OF the Long Island
Historical Society was crowded.
Among other things the speak er SAID
the motion of The earth upon 1t, axis,
and the motion of the earth in =
revolution around the sun, wer,
secondary 10 another an nIghtier
motion whose rate had not been
accurately computed. This was the
motion OF oar entire plane ary system
through space. Zach of tire great
scenes of human history which had
laKen place upon the mighty stage OF
this moving ar ship from age TO age
had been in regions OF the universe
separated by millions of IN les.
he eyond this solar system WIS regian
Of suns and worlds 50 vast that the
imagination was powerle.s bsfore II,
but into which We were advancing.
The first pictures east upon The
canvas were illustrative Of Jupiter. It's
famous red spot Of 1878, an / Us eqna-
tor.al belts. Tho changes i'm these
belts and in the red spot had told as-
tronomers that the surface OF Jupiter
WIS no. solid, like that Of the earth,
bat liquid, gaseous. In the revolution
Il n 4 i.
passed by noticeable spots in the great
equatorial belts, wherea. upon body
Ike the earth they would have main
tanned their relative positions.
Jupiter, he sail, WAS apparently a
world IN process of formation. There
WAS one occasion when the speaker
had gazed upon II with Prof. Young,
through the great Princeton telescope,
which magnified it fourteen hundred
diaIneters, or many millions OF times,
when 1t presented a picture whose
beauty 1t was impos ,ible 10 portray in
words.
t'rom pictures Of Jupiter under
different conditions. some OF Il EN-
handsomely eolored, the lecturer
passed To several showing Saturn and
his mysterious rings, which he said
would more nearly present their ilal
surfaces 10 the earth IN 1889 Than for
many years before. and would then
be very beautiful objects. Change.
in those rings, their broadening. and
their gradual approach toward tie
planet since the sixteenth century,
wera shown by views.
Mars, cast upon the canvas as a
great glohe, with lines OF latitude and
longitude continents, seas, and
islands, was apparently very much
Ike the earth. II was 50 we'll under
stood by astronomers, and lis surface
80 we'll explored and so eompieis ~
named, thai nn astronomer ho might
ba east upon IL would have no
aifiicully n ling his way about
an in telling TIE inhabitants more
IAN th.y probably ever kneN aboal
their own Arctic reginnS. In suc-
ces,iyc pictures tl.o marked changes
ia the Arctic regions ln winter anu
summer Mere shown, and The Tact wa>
no.ed that ii had changing seasons
like our Own.
"Nenus,' the speaker said. ais the
u ost shy aud provoking planet ofali,
since she persists in con >tanily hiding
h lace beneath c,ond>. The. @ Ha>
tvery reason to believe that, more
than any other planet, she was like
The world, WITH rain and snow and
changing seasons, ana perhaps
in iaDitanis.'
Tae transits of Venus and Mercury
were illustrated in successive pictures,
and the surface Of tie dead .moor,
with It's great mountains and It's 'ast
rrilers, was shoAn b. several views.
The lecture ,losrd with n startling
view oi the ear.h as II would appear
from the moon.