 | 1833 - 468 pages
...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,... | |
 | John Wesley - Natural history - 1836 - 396 pages
...from one thousand to one thousand two hundred feet ; Jupiter, a moderate-sized orange, in a circle of nearly half a mile across ; Saturn, a small orange,...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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Physics - 1838 - 266 pages
...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 pages
...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 - Astronomy - 1838 - 268 pages
...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... | |
 | Periodicals - 1839 - 272 pages
...Ceres, Vesta, aod Pallas, grains of sand, in orbits of from 1000 to 1200 feet; Jupiter a moderate-sized orange in a circle nearly half a mile across; Saturn...a circle more than a mile and a half in diameter." • See Saturday Magağine, Vol. XII., p. KB. But when the student of Astronomy shall have come to... | |
 | Henry Duncan - God - 1839 - 422 pages
...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 pages
...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 - Astronomy - 1840 - 362 pages
...Ceres, Vesta, and Pallas, grains of sand, in orbits of from 1000 to 1200 feet; Jupiter, a moderate-sized orange, in a circle nearly half a mile across; Saturn,...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 - Zoology - 1840 - 382 pages
...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... | |
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... 430 feet; Mars a rather large pin's head, on a circle of 654 feet; Juno, Ceres, Vesta, and Pallas, grains of sand, in orbits of from 1000 to 1200 feet; Jupiter a moderate-sized orange, in a circle nearly half a mile across; Saturn a small orange,... 
