[14] Who assigned to him, as his representative metal, lead--a metal
"heavy, dull, and slow," as Don Armado puts it, in "Love's Labour's
Lost."
[15] Attention has lately been called, by the astronomers of the
Washington Observatory, to the fact that the statement usually made in
our books of astronomy, that Sir W. Herschel's latest determination of
Saturn's rotation period was 10h. 29m., is incorrect. His only
determination of the period gave 10h. 16m. 44s. for the Saturnian day.
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