Author: James Clerk Maxwell

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• Ben Bova (1)
  • IN: Saturn (2003) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There are some questions in Astronomy to which we are attracted … on account of their peculiarity … [rather] than from any direct advantage which their solution would afford to mankind… I am not aware that any practical use has been made of Saturn’s Rings… But when we contemplate the Rings from a purely scientific point of view, they become the most remarkable bodies in the heavens… When we have actually seen that great arch swing over the equator of the planet without any visible connection, we cannot bring our minds to rest.
    FROM: On the Stability of the Motion of Saturn's Rings, (1859), Book, UK