The Planetary and Stellar Worlds: A Popular Exposition of the Great Discoveries and Theories of Modern Astronomy. In a Series of Ten LecturesOakley & Mason, 1868 - 320 páginas |
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... Jupiter's system , 187. Of Saturn's system , 190 . • LECTURE VII . THE DISCOVERY OF THE NEW PLANETS . Bode's Kepler's speculations , 194. Discovery of Uranus , 195 . law of interplanetary spaces , 196. The astronomical congress of ...
... Jupiter's system , 187. Of Saturn's system , 190 . • LECTURE VII . THE DISCOVERY OF THE NEW PLANETS . Bode's Kepler's speculations , 194. Discovery of Uranus , 195 . law of interplanetary spaces , 196. The astronomical congress of ...
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... Jupiter's satellites , and employed as a unit , 256 . Parallax of the fixed stars , 258. No parallax sensible to the naked eye , 260. Great distance of the fixed stars inferred from this fact , 261. Bradley's researches for parallax ...
... Jupiter's satellites , and employed as a unit , 256 . Parallax of the fixed stars , 258. No parallax sensible to the naked eye , 260. Great distance of the fixed stars inferred from this fact , 261. Bradley's researches for parallax ...
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... Jupiter was the se cond wanderer revealed among the stars . Then fol- lowed Mars , and Saturn , and after a long interval Mercury was detected , hovering near the sun , and im- itating the curious motions of Venus . Here the progress of ...
... Jupiter was the se cond wanderer revealed among the stars . Then fol- lowed Mars , and Saturn , and after a long interval Mercury was detected , hovering near the sun , and im- itating the curious motions of Venus . Here the progress of ...
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... Jupiter 4,332 days , and Saturn 10,759 days , or nearly thirty of our years . The planets all pursued their journics in the heav . ens , among the same constellations which marked the paths of the sun and moon , and hence these groups ...
... Jupiter 4,332 days , and Saturn 10,759 days , or nearly thirty of our years . The planets all pursued their journics in the heav . ens , among the same constellations which marked the paths of the sun and moon , and hence these groups ...
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... Jupiter more remote than Mars , and Sat urn the most distant , as it was the slowest moving of all the planets . After reaching to a knowledge of the causes pro ducing the eclipses of the sun and the phases of the moon , it remained yet ...
... Jupiter more remote than Mars , and Sat urn the most distant , as it was the slowest moving of all the planets . After reaching to a knowledge of the causes pro ducing the eclipses of the sun and the phases of the moon , it remained yet ...
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