 | Richard Green Parker - 1838 - 266 páginas
...diameter; — Saturn, a small orange, on a circle of four fifths of a mile in diameter, and Herschel a full-sized cherry or small plum, upon the circumference...a circle more than a mile and a half in diameter. " To imitate the motions of the planets in the above mentioned orbits, Mercury must describe its own... | |
 | Christian Tract Society - 1838 - 80 páginas
...mile across ; Saturn, a small orange, on a circle four-fifths of a mile j and Uranus, a full sized cherry, or small plum, upon the circumference of a circle more than a mile and a half in diameter." — Treatise on Astronomy, by Sir JOHN FW HERSCHEI, p. 287. B 13 " Yet, mamma," said Mary, after a... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - 1838 - 268 páginas
...orange, in a circle of four fifths of a mile ; and Uranus (Herschel) a full sized cherry, or small plumb, upon the circumference of a circle more than a mile and a half in diameter." To imitate the motions of the planets, in the above Suppose the sun be represented by a ball of two... | |
 | 1839 - 272 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...a circle more than a mile and a half in diameter." • See Saturday Maga»ine, Vol. XII., p. KB. But when the student of Astronomy shall have come to... | |
 | Henry Duncan - 1839 - 422 páginas
...sized orange, on 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...a circle more than a mile and a half in diameter." t Whewell's Bridgewater Treatise, pp. 273, 274. which it consists, we may imagine that we make perceptible... | |
 | Thomas Lockerby - 1839 - 566 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 and a half in diameter. To imitate the motions of the planets, in the above mentioned orbits, Mercury must describe its own... | |
 | Lewis Tomlinson - 1840 - 362 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...a circle more than a mile and a half in diameter." But when the student of Astronomy shall have come to form a just estimate of the extent of the solar... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1840 - 382 páginas
...mile across ; Saturn, a small orange, on a circle of fourfifths 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.' As the different members of this system are particularly described under the proper heads we shall only... | |
 | Charles Benjamin Tayler - 1840 - 398 páginas
...of about a mile's diameter ; and Uranus or the Georgium Sidus, a full sized cherry or small plum on the circumference of a circle more than a mile and a half in diameter." Such are the contents and relative dimensions of the solar system. Vast as are these notions of magnitude... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1841 - 516 páginas
...moderate-sized orange in a circle nearly half a mile across ; Saturn, a small orange, in a circle of four fifths of a mile ; and Uranus, a full-sized cherry or small...circle, more than a mile and a half in diameter." II. THE EARTH, ITS FIGURE, DIMENSIONS, &c. 1. The Earth. The earth is a planet, of a globular shape,... | |
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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. 
