 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 414 pages
...the moll proper form for motion. Thus we had feven htavens for the feven planets; viz. the heavens of the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. The eighth was for the fixed liars, which they particularly called Uießrmamtnt. Ptolemy adds a ninth heaven,... | |
 | John Ewing - Astronomy - 1809 - 672 pages
...center of the universe, and that all the heavenly bodies moved round it from east to west in 24 hours, in the following order: — the moon, Mercury, Venus, the sun, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn; then the stars, and beyond them, his figment of the primum mobi/e, which he supposed gave motion to... | |
 | Samuel Vince - Astronomy - 1811 - 260 pages
...and comets had a motion in respect to the fixed stars, and were situated, in respect to the earth, in the following order: the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn. These revolutions he first supposed to be made in circles about the earth, placed a little... | |
 | William Enfield - Astronomy - 1811 - 476 pages
...and comets, had a motion in respect to the fixed stars, and were situated in respect to the earth, in the following order: the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn. The revolutions of these bodies he supposed to be made in circles about the earth placed a... | |
 | Samuel Vince - Astronomia - 1814 - 602 pages
...and comets had a motion in respect to the fixed stars, and were situated, in respect to the earth, in the following order ; the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn. These revolutions he first supposed to be made in circles about the earth placed a little out... | |
 | Samuel Vince - Hydrostatics - 1820 - 472 pages
...and comets had a motion in respect to the fixed stars, and were situated, in respect to the earth, in the following order; the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn. These revolutions he first supposed to be made in circles about the earth, placed a little... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - Physics - 1826 - 236 pages
...and comets, had a motion in respect to the fixed stars, and were situated, in respect to the earth, in the following order : the .Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, 2. The system received by the Egyptians was, that the earth was immoveable in the centre, about... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 806 pages
...most proper form for motion. Thus they had seven heavens for the seven planets ; viz. the heavens of the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. The eighth was for the fixed stars, which they called the firmament. Ptolemy adds a ninth heaven, which he called... | |
 | George Crabb - Industrial arts - 1830 - 380 pages
...heavens as they observed different celestial motions ; thus they had seven heavens for the seven planets, the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. The eighth was the fixed stars, which was particularly denominated the firmament. Ptolemy added a ninth heaven,... | |
 | George Crabb - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1831 - 426 pages
...heavens as they observed different celestial motions; thus they had seven heavens for the seven planets, the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. The eighth was the fixed stars, which was particularly denominated the firmament Ptolemy added a ninth heaven,... | |
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From the earth outwards the seven first circles represent the paths of the following bodies as planets, and in the following order :•—the Moon ; Mercury ; Venus; the Sun ; Mars ; Jupiter; and Saturn. The eighth circle, e, represents the path of the... 
