Painting Planets: Jupiter as Shown in Popular Works a Century Ago

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May 1999

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999aas...194.0107h&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, 194th AAS Meeting, #01.07; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 31, p.824

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Book illustrations from one-hundred years ago tell us how the planets were then popularly envisioned. Surprisingly, while Jupiter's is the most dynamic disk in the Solar System when viewed through the telescope, that world was often depicted by the *same* illustration. This "paradigm" figure provides insight into the limitations of nineteenth-century planetary astronomy.

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