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Leverrier Reception at Leverrier's Rooms in observatory Rome Impressions Apartments in Rome and Paris Customs Holy week Vespers at St. Peter's Women Frederika Bremer Paul Akers Harriet Hosmer Collegio Romano Father Secchi Galileo Visit to the Roman observatory Permission from Cardinal Antonelli Spectroscope Mrs. Somerville Berlin Humboldt Mrs. Mitchell's illness and death Removal to Lynn, Mass.
The third satellite was seen by Dawes, half dark, half bright, when crossing Jupiter's disc, August 21, 1867; one-third dark by Davidson of California, January 15, 1884, under the same circumstances; and unmistakably spotted, both on and off the planet, by Schröter, Secchi, Dawes, and Lassell.
"And God knows how they are made!" "Yes, but don't contradict them. When everything is shaking and moving about, who draws diagrams? Nothing, Padre Secchi " And they smiled with sovereign disdain. "But what about the weather forecasts and the typhoons?" asked another ironically. "Aren't they divine?" "Any fisherman foretells them!"
De la Rue occupied a station at Rivabellosa, in the Upper Ebro valley; Secchi set up his instrument at Desierto de las Palmas, about 250 miles to the south-east, overlooking the Mediterranean. From the totally eclipsed sun, with its strange garland of flames, each observer derived several perfectly successful impressions, which were found, on comparison, to agree in the most minute details.
It would lead us far beyond the object of these lectures to dwell upon the numerous interesting and important results obtained by Secchi, Respighi, Young, and other distinguished men who have worked at the chemistry of the sun and its appendages. Nor can I do more at present than make a passing reference to the excellent labours of Dr.
Father Secchi, in the clear sky of Rome, was able to push the identification even closer than had heretofore been done. The complete hydro-carbon spectrum consists of five zones of variously coloured light. Three of these only the three central ones had till then been obtained from comets; owing, it was supposed, to their temperature not being high enough to develop the others.
But the identity in substance of earth and sun and stars was not more clearly shown than the diversity of their existing physical conditions. It was soon made clear, also, particularly by the studies of Rutherfurd and of Secchi, that stars differ among themselves in exact constitution or condition.
In the entangled valleys of their clustered peaks, appeared the dazzling sheets of white, noted by Father Secchi, but their peculiar nature Barbican could now examine with a greater prospect of certainty than the illustrious Roman astronomer had ever enjoyed. "They're beds of snow," he said at last in a decided tone. "Snow!" exclaimed M'Nicholl.
Two low dusky rings and a long narrow valley with brilliant flanks are prominent objects on the plain E. of Taruntius under a low evening sun. SECCHI. A partially enclosed little ring-plain S. of Taruntius, with a prominent central mountain and bright walls. There is a short cleft running in a N.E. direction from a point near the E. wall. Schmidt represents it as a row of inosculating craters.
It would, indeed, have been comical to see such men as Secchi, Franzelin, Tarquini, and many, besides, the first professors in the world, seated on scholars’ benches, to be examined by the semi-barbarous officials, whether civil or military, of the Piedmontese King. Pius IX., although pressed by many wants, provided an asylum for science.
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