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T. A. Hockey (University of Northern Iowa)
Book illustrations from one-hundred years ago tell us how the planets were then popularly envisioned. Surprisingly, while Jupiter's is the most dynamic disk in the Solar System when viewed through the telescope, that world was often depicted by the *same* illustration. This "paradigm" figure provides insight into the limitations of nineteenth-century planetary astronomy.
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