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with awe, and as a thing which they may scarcely dare to touch. 
It is regarded with favor, yet there are few cosmologists who 
venture a decided opinion upon it; and, indeed, while there are 
few points from which it can be controverted, Laplace himself 
seems to have exhausted what can be said in its favor, in the few 
lines which he has given to it, in a manner far from positive, and 
_ ina retired corner of his book. If that theory be true, however, 
absorbed in itself all the nebulous matter of the ring from which 
it Was originally formed; and that, consequently, there may be, 
to each of them, a remainder substance, in the form of a ring, or 
rings, with the planet for its centre. In the case of Saturn, 
such rings are visible by the aid of our glasses. To Jupiter, 
such rings have given four satellites; for our own globe, one 
/ 
Between PQR ae AMN the nebulous ring.—E, the i obeg Scat 
direction of the Sun.—B, F, D, H, M, horizons; B, at 41 80’; aig poner dis 4 
** 80°; H, at 14 30’; M, at midnight.—S, T, vertices; 8, at 4x 80°; T, ; 
B 
other planets, and confining ourselves 
pT Light aia af a eo central to the earth, to which they 
: _ Sttlon,* the observation quoted in the former section - 
relative proportions of the earth and the ring, and also its dista prey of 
Course, not given in this diagram with any effort at certainty; the ui diagram, is, 
Pi c “ve yor eral far greater than can repreaentet 
Wever, sufficiently correct for our present 
