 | sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - 500 síður
...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...question. To imitate the motions of the planets, in the above mentioned orbits, Mercury must describe its own diameter in 41 seconds; Venus, in 4nl 14s; the... | |
 | Sir John Frederick William Herschel - 1833 - 444 síður
...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...question. To imitate the motions of the planets, in the above mentioned orbits, Mercury must describe its own diameter in 41 seconds; Venus, in 4ni 14s; the... | |
 | 1833 - 468 síður
...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 aud a half in diameter. As to getting correct notions on this subject by drawing circles on paper,... | |
 | 1836 - 422 síður
...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...motions of the planets in the above-mentioned orbits, Merc*iry must describe his own diameter in forty-one seconds ; Venus in four minutes and fourteen seconds... | |
 | John Wesley - 1836 - 398 síður
...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...notions on this subject by drawing circles on paper, it is out of the question. To imitate the motions of the planets in the abovementioned orbits, Mercury... | |
 | 1836 - 534 síður
...Hina.ll plum, three quarters of a mile from the sun. "As to getting correct notions on this subject by those very childish toys, called orreries, it is out of the question." (Sir J. HerschePs Astronomy; Lardner's Cyclop&dia, p. 287.) This is the smallest scale on which an... | |
 | Mrs. L. H. Tyler - 1837 - 302 síður
...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...toys called orreries, it is out of the question." (270.) The analogical evidence of the earth's annual motion arising from the revolution of these bodies... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1838 - 266 síður
...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...a circle more than a mile and a half in diameter. " To imitate the motions of the planets in the above mentioned orbits, Mercury must describe its own... | |
 | Christian Tract Society - 1838 - 80 síður
...mile across ; Saturn, a small orange, on a circle four-fifths of a mile j and Uranus, a full sized cherry, or small plum, upon the circumference of a circle more than a mile and a half in diameter." — Treatise on Astronomy, by Sir JOHN FW HERSCHEI, p. 287. B 13 " Yet, mamma," said Mary, after a... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - 1838 - 268 síður
...orange, in a circle of four fifths of a mile ; and Uranus (Herschel) a full sized cherry, or small plumb, 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 Suppose the sun be represented by a ball of two... | |
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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... 
