 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, on a circle of...  A Treatise on Navigation and Nautical Astronomy - Page 117by William Robert Martin - 1899 - 429 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1833 - 618 pages
...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. As to getting correct notions on this subject by drawing circles... | |
 | Augustus De Morgan - Astronomy - 1836 - 144 pages
...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. As to getting correct notions on this subject by drawing circles... | |
 | John Wesley - Natural history - 1836 - 396 pages
...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 plum, upon the circumference of a circle more than a mile and a half in diameter. As to getting correct notions on this subject by drawing circles... | |
 | Mrs. L. H. Tyler - Astronomy - 1837 - 302 pages
...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. As to getting correct notions on this subject, by drawing... | |
 | 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 of a circle more than a mile and a half in diameter. " To imitate the motions of the planets in the above mentioned... | |
 | Henry Duncan - God - 1839 - 422 pages
...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." t Whewell's Bridgewater Treatise, pp. 273, 274. which it... | |
 | Periodicals - 1839 - 272 pages
...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." • See Saturday Maga»ine, Vol. XII., p. KB. But when the... | |
 | Lewis Tomlinson - Astronomy - 1840 - 362 pages
...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." But when the student of Astronomy shall have come to form... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Geography - 1841 - 516 pages
...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 plum upon the circumference of a circle, more than a mile and a half in diameter." II. THE EARTH, ITS FIGURE, DIMENSIONS, &c. 1. The Earth.... | |
 | T H. Howe - 1842 - 458 pages
...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." In the lines next following, the scale of distances and magnitudes... | |
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