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And precisely this circulatory process it is which gives to our great luminary its permance as a sun, or warming and illuminating body. Both Galileo and Scheiner spoke of the apparent or "synodical" period, which is about one and a third days longer than the true or "sidereal" one. Am. Ass. Meteor. dell Osservatorio dell Coll. Roy. Jour. of Science, 1881, vol. xxi., p. 41.
Before the break of day their discharged cargo would be in the lighters and they would be steaming southward for the Straits of Messina. That night, on the deserted deck, at anchor between the city and the sea, they watched the glimmering lights of Naples, rising tier after tier from the Immacolatella Nuova and its ship lamps to the Palazzo di Capodimonte and its near-by Osservatorio.
It was the lagoons round Venice. I spent also many interesting days about this time at our tree O.P. on Cima del Taglio. The Italians had an O.P. in a neighbouring tree, which they called Osservatorio Battisti. The British Field Artillery occupied a third tree, and the French a fourth. The pine trees on that summit were, literally, full of eyes.
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