 | John Ellard Gore - Astronomy - 1888 - 280 pages
...vary in brightness as they vary in phase, similar to the moon or Mercury. Sir John Herschel says : " A man placed on one of them would spring with ease...greater shock in his descent than he does on the earth by leaping a yard. On such planets giants might exist ; and those enormous animals which on earth require... | |
 | George Frederick Chambers - Astronomical instruments - 1889 - 758 pages
...one of the minor planets, would spring with ease 6oft, and sustain in his descent no greater shock than he does on the Earth from leaping a yard. On such planets giants might exist ; and those enormous animals which, on Earth, require the buoyant powers of water to counteract... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1849 - 592 pages
...quicksilver, where to sink is impossible. • A man placed on one of • them would spring with ease sixty feet high, and sustain no ' greater shock in his descent...earth from ' leaping a yard. On such planets giants might exist, and those ' enormous animals, which on earth require the buoyant power ' of water to counteract... | |
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A man placed on one of them would spring with ease 60 feet high, and sustain no greater shock in his descent than he does on the earth from leaping a yard. 
