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the lighter parts to be clouds confined to
certain latitudes.
In 1665 Cassini observed transits of the
four satellites, and also saw their shadows
on the planet, and worked out a lunar the-
ory for Jupiter. Mathematical astronomers
have taken great interest in the perturba-
tions of the satellites, because their relative
periods introduce peculiar effects. Airy, in
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