Saturn

(noun.) a giant planet that is surrounded by three planar concentric rings of ice particles; the 6th planet from the sun.

(noun.) (Roman mythology) god of agriculture and vegetation; counterpart of Greek Cronus; 'Saturday is Saturn's Day'.

校对:伊薇特

• Giving full scope to his imagination, he asks if the earth as well as Saturn may not have been surrounded by a ring. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• He was able to make out the mountains in the moon, the satellites of Jupiter in rotation, the spots on the revolving sun; but his telescope afforded only an imperfect view of Saturn. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• He had submitted to rigorous examination the data in reference to the disturbing influence of Jupiter and of Saturn on the orbit of Uranus. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• In this circulating vaporous disk about the sun differences of density give rise to zones not unlike the rings of Saturn. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• In our modern languages they are named after the sun, the moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn, which from the remotest times were personified and worshiped. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Kant was especially stimulated by the analog y between the Milky Way and the rings of Saturn. 李贝. 西洋科学史.

录入:昆西