 | Robert Sullivan - 1883 - 460 pages
...by a grain of mustard-seed on the circumference of a circle, 164 feet in diameter, for its orb.t ; Venus, a pea, on a circle of 284 feet in diameter...also a pea, on a circle of 430 feet Mars, a rather largo pin's head, on a circle of 654 feet ; Vesta, Juno, Ceres, Pallas (Asteroids), grains of sand,... | |
 | Laurence M'Currick - 1883 - 64 pages
...Sun ; Mercury will be represented by a grain of mustard seed, on the circumference of a circle 164 feet in diameter for its orbit ; Venus, a pea, on a circle 284 feet in diameter ; the Earth, also a pea, on a circle of 430 feet ; Mars, a rather large pin's... | |
 | Laurence M'Currick - Planets - 1883 - 46 pages
...Sun ; Mercury will be represented by a grain of mustard seed, on the circumference of a circle 164 feet in diameter for its orbit ; Venus, a pea, on a circle 284 feet in diameter ; the Earth, also a pea, on a circle of 430 feet ; Mars, a rather large pin's... | |
 | Robert Sullivan - Geography - 1884 - 510 pages
...sun ; Mercury will be represented by a grain of mustard-seed on the circumference of a circle, 164 feet in diameter, for its orbit ; Venus, a pea, on...a rather large pin's head, on a circle of 654 feet ; Vesta, Juno, Ceres, Pallas (Asteroids), grains of sand, in orbits of from 1,000 to 1,200 feet ; Jupiter,... | |
 | Titbits - 1884 - 376 pages
...sun ; Mercury will be represented by a grain of mustard seed, on the circumference of a circle 164 feet in diameter for its orbit ; Venus, a pea, on a circle 284 feet in diameter; the earth, also a pea, on a circle of 430 feet ; Mars, a rather large pin's head,... | |
 | Education - 1887 - 524 pages
...represented by a grain of mustard seed, on the circumference of a circle one hundred and sixty-four feet in diameter for its orbit ; Venus, a pea, on a circle two hundred and eighty-four feet in diameter; the Earth also a pea, on a circle of four hundred and... | |
 | Charles Augustus Young - Astronomy - 1888 - 638 pages
...the sun ; Mercury will be represented by a grain of mustard-seed on the circumference of a circle 104 feet in diameter for its orbit ; Venus, a pea on a...pea on a circle of 430 feet ; Mars, a rather large pin's-head on a circle of 654 feet; the asteroids, grains of sand in orbits of 1000 to 1200 feet; Jupiter,... | |
 | Richard S. Peale - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 548 pages
...for its orbit; Venus, a pea, on a Sun-spots, as they are generally called, are hollows in the circle 284 feet in diameter; the Earth, also a pea on a circle sun's vapory substance, and are of enormous extent ; and there 430 feet ; Mars, a rather Urge pin's... | |
 | Sir Richard Gregory - Geomorphology - 1893 - 320 pages
...sun. Mercury will be represented by a grain of mustard seed, on the circumference of a circle 1 64 feet in diameter for its orbit ; Venus, a pea on a...pea on a circle of 430 feet ; Mars, a rather large E pin's- head on a circle of 654 feet ; the asteroids, grains of sand in orbits of 1,000 to 1,200 feet... | |
 | Christianity - 1893 - 814 pages
...the sun. Mercury will be represented by a grain of mustard seed, on the circumference of a circle 164 feet in diameter for its orbit ; Venus a pea, on a circle 284 feet in diameter ; the Earth a little larg'er pea, on a circle of 430 feet ; Mars a large pin's... | |
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Venus, a pea, on a circle of 284 feet in diameter ; the Earth, also a pea, on a circle of 430 feet ; Mars, a rather large pin's head, on a circle of... 
