[12] An expression in Book VIII. 148-49 would seem to indicate that this was inaccurate, but the lines
‘and other suns perhaps
With their attendant moons, thou wilt descry,’
are an allusion to the planets Jupiter and Saturn, whose satellites had been recently discovered.
[13] Mr. E. W. Maunder, in Knowledge, March 1894.
[14] Though not a celestial body, it is considered desirable to describe the Earth as a member of the solar system.