 | 1833 - 618 páginas
...moderate-sized orange, in a circle nearly half a mile across ; Saturn a small orange, on a circle of four-fifths of a mile ; and Uranus a full-sized cherry, or small...childish toys called orreries, it is out of the question. To imitate the motions of the planets, in the above-mentioned orbits, Mercury must describe its own... | |
 | Sir John Frederick William Herschel - 1833 - 444 páginas
...mile across ; Saturn a small orange, on a circle of four-fifths of a mile ; and Uranus a full sized cherry, or small plum, upon the circumference of a...childish toys called orreries, it is out of the question. To imitate the motions of the planets, in the above mentioned orbits, Mercury must describe its own... | |
 | sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - 500 páginas
...mile across ; Saturn a small orange, on a circle of four-fifths of a mile ; and Uranus a full sized cherry, or small plum, upon the circumference of a...childish toys called orreries, it is out of the question. To imitate the motions of the planets, in the above mentioned orbits, Mercury must describe its own... | |
 | 1833 - 468 páginas
...mile across; Saturn a small orange, on a circle of four-fifths of a mile ; and Uranus a full sized cherry, or small plum, upon the circumference of a circle more than a mile aud a half in diameter. As to getting correct notions on this subject by drawing circles on paper,... | |
 | Augustus De Morgan - 1836 - 144 páginas
...orange, in a circle nearly half a mile across ; Saturn, a small orange, on a circle of four-fifths of a mile ; and Uranus, a full-sized cherry, or small...childish toys called orreries, it is out of the question. To imitate the motions of the planets, in the above-mentioned orbits, Mercury must describe ils own... | |
 | 1836 - 422 páginas
...mile across ; Saturn a small orange, on a circle of four fifths of a mile ; and Uranus a full sized cherry, or small plum, upon the circumference of a...childish toys called orreries, it is out of the question. To imitate the motions of the planets in the above-mentioned orbits, Merc*iry must describe his own... | |
 | William Mullinger Higgins - 1836 - 514 páginas
...mile across ; Saturn a small orange, on a circle of four 6fths of a mile ; and Uranus a full sized cherry, or small plum, upon the circumference of a...childish toys called orreries, it is out of the question. To imitate the motions of the planets in the above-mentioned orbits, Mercury must describe his own... | |
 | John Wesley - 1836 - 398 páginas
...orange, in a circle of nearly half a mile across; Saturn, a small orange, on a circle of fourfifths of a mile ; and Uranus, a full-sized cherry, or small...notions on this subject by drawing circles on paper, it is out of the question. To imitate the motions of the planets in the abovementioned orbits, Mercury... | |
 | 1836 - 534 páginas
...Hina.ll plum, three quarters of a mile from the sun. "As to getting correct notions on this subject by those very childish toys, called orreries, it is out of the question." (Sir J. HerschePs Astronomy; Lardner's Cyclop&dia, p. 287.) This is the smallest scale on which an orrery could... | |
 | Mrs. L. H. Tyler - 1837 - 302 páginas
...sized orange, in a circle nearly half a mile across ; Saturn a small orange on a circle of four-fifths of a mile ; and Uranus a full-sized cherry or small...toys called orreries, it is out of the question." (270.) The analogical evidence of the earth's annual motion arising from the revolution of these bodies... | |
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Jupiter, a moderate sized orange, in a circle nearly half a mile across; Saturn, a small orange, on a circle of four-fifths of a mile ; and Uranus, a full-sized cherry, or small plum, upon the circumference of a circle more than a mile and a half in diameter. 
