 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Astronomy - 1871 - 464 pages
...smaller planets by grains of sand, in orbits of from i, coo to 1,200 feet; Jupiter, a moderate sized orange, in a circle nearly half a mile across ; Saturn, a small orange, in a circle of four-fifths of a mile ; Uranus, a full-sized cherry, or small plum, upon the circumference... | |
 | Hugo Reid - 1874 - 276 pages
...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;...mile across ; Saturn, a small orange, on a circle of four-fifths of a mile ; Uranus, a full-sized cherry, or small plum, upon the circumference of a circle... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Astronomy - 1874 - 332 pages
...pin's head, in a circle of 654 feet ; the asteroids, grains of sand, in orbits of from 1,000 to 1,200 feet ; Jupiter, a moderate-sized orange, in a circle...nearly half a mile across ; Saturn, a small orange, in a circle of four-fifths of a mile ; Uranus, a full-sized cherry, or small plum, in a circle more... | |
 | Robert Sullivan - 1874 - 502 pages
...Pallas (Asteroids), grains of sand, in orbits of from 1,000 to 1,200 feet ; Jupiter, a moderately-sized orange, in 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 plum, upon the circumference of a... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Astronomy - 1874 - 146 pages
...smaller planets by grains of sand, in orbits of from 1,000 to 1,200 feet; Jupiter, a moderate sized orange, in a circle nearly half a mile across ; Saturn, a small orange, in a circle of four-fifths of a mile ; Uranus, a full-sized cherry, or small plum, u.pou the circu1uference... | |
 | Science - 1875 - 598 pages
...distance of 430 feet; Mars, a rather large pin's head, in a circle of 654 feet ; the smaller planets by 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, in a circle of four-fifths of a mile ; Uranus, a full-sized... | |
 | James Samuelson, William Crookes - Science - 1875 - 594 pages
...distance of 430 feet ; Mars, a rather large pin's head, in a circle of 654 feet ; the smaller planets by 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, in a circle of four-fifths of a mile ; Uranus, a full-sized... | |
 | James Reynolds (F.R.G.S.) - 1878 - 226 pages
...smaller planets by grains of sand in orbits of from 1,000 to 1,200 feet ; Jupiter, a moderate sized orange, in a circle nearly half a mile across ; Saturn, a small orange, in a circle of four-fifths of a mile ; Uranus, a full sized cherry, or small plum, upon the circumference... | |
 | Almanacs, American - 1879 - 384 pages
...diameter of 430 feet; Mars, a rather larger pin's-head, in a circle of 654 feet; the smaller planets by grains of sand in orbits of from 1000 to 1200 feet;...moderate-sized orange, in a circle nearly half a mile in radius; Saturn, a small orange in a circle of four-fifths of a mile ; Uranus, a full-sized cherry,... | |
 | Science - 1880 - 922 pages
...the earth, also, a pea on a circle of 430 feet ; Mars, a rather large pin's head in a circle of 654 feet ; Jupiter, a moderate-sized orange in a circle nearly half a mile across ; Saturn, a smaller orange on a circle of four fifths of a mile ; Uranus, a fullsized cherry upon the circumference... | |
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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, on a circle of 654 feet... 
