The Rotation of Mercury

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 21 Aug 1890 English Publisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal:Nature, volume 42, pages 391-391 (issn: 0028-0836, eissn: 1476-4687,

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Authors: Winchell, Alexander;

doi: 10.1038/042391a0

The Rotation of Mercury

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IN your issue for January 16 (xli. p. 257), Schiaparelli's observations on the planet Mercury are stated to lead that astronomer to the conclusion that “Mercury revolves around the sun in the same manner that the moon revolves round the earth, always presenting to it the same hemisphere.”

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