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The phosphorescence of the Aphroditean oceans, warm and teeming with life, as they are held to be by Zollner, was advanced as an explanatory hypothesis, with scarcely more plausibility, by Professor Safarik, while others have resorted to the supposition of atmospheric or electrical luminosity producing on a large scale some such display as that of the aurora borealis.
Shadings, it is true, were almost always, though faintly, seen; but they appeared under an anomalous, possibly an illusory aspect. They consisted, not of parallel, but of forked bands. Measurements of the little sea-green disc which represents to us the massive bulk of Uranus, by Young, Schiaparelli, Safarik, H. C. Wilson and Perrotin, prove it to be quite distinctly bulged.
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