safarik's

Updated: May 18, 2025

When we remember, however, that "full earth-light" on Venus, at its nearest, has little more than 1/12000 its intensity on the moon, we see at once that the explanation is inadequate. Nor can Professor Safarik's, by phosphorescence of the warm and teeming oceans with which Zöllner regarded the globe of Venus as mainly covered, be seriously entertained. Vogel's suggestion is more plausible.

Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke - A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century: Fourth Edition