 | Daniel Kirkwood - 1873 - 124 páginas
...uniform velocity of 500 miles per hour would not reach the orbit of Neptune in less than 639 years. These planets all move round the sun in the same direction, — from west to east. Their motions are nearly circular, and also nearly in the same plane. Their orbits, except that of... | |
 | Edward John Chalmers Morton - 1882 - 370 páginas
...vortices, invented and maintained by Descartes. Noticing the same facts observed by Kepler, namely, that the planets all move round the sun in the same direction, from west to east, in orbits which are very round ellipses, nearly circles, and nearly in the same plane, and that the... | |
 | Sir Robert Stawell Ball - 1910 - 492 páginas
...movements which separate the class of bodies we call planets from the class of badies we call comets. The planets all move round the sun in the same direction, from west to east, and, if we except a few of the minor planets, their orbits are but very little inclined to each other.... | |
 | Daniel Kirkwood - 1867 - 138 páginas
...would not reach the orbit of Neptune from the sun in less than six hundred and eighty years. These planets all move round the sun in the same direction — from west to east. Their motions are nearly circular, and also nearly in the same plane. Their orbits, except that of... | |
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These planets all move round the sun in the same direction, — from west to east. 