 | John Pinkerton - 1804 - 694 pages
...primary planets, the secondary planets, and the comets, compose what is called the Solar System. The two planets which are nearer to the sun than the earth is, are called inferior planets; and the other five which are further from the sun than the earth is, are called superior planets. All... | |
 | John Vose - 1827 - 262 pages
...miles. Eccentricity, ..... . 473,100 miles. • t SECTION V.— OF MERCURY AND VENUS. Mercury and Venus are called inferior planets, because their orbits are within that of the earth, or they are nearer the sun than the earth.* These planets are often in conjunction with the sun ; never... | |
 | E. R. - 1828 - 418 pages
...light are computed at seven times greater than on the Earth in summer. The planets Mercury and Venus are called inferior planets, because their orbits are within that of the Earth*; therefore when either of them come in a direct line with the Sun and Earth, it seems to pass over the... | |
 | Leonard Dunnell Gale - 1838 - 280 pages
...passing through its centre, terminating at the extremities by the poles. XXXVII. Mercury and Venus are called inferior planets because their orbits are within that of the Earth; while those of all the other planets being without that of the Earth, they are called superior. XXX... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1844 - 276 pages
...axis in about 25 days and 10 hours. * The paths or orbits of the planets are not exactly circular, but elliptical. They are, therefore, sometimes nearer...which are nearer to the sun than the earth is, are culled inferior planets, because their orliits are within that of the earth, — and those which are... | |
 | Ezra Otis Kendall - 1845 - 404 pages
...are nearly equal, the velocity of falling bodies will be nearly the same for both. Mercury and Venus are called inferior planets, because their orbits are within that of the earth : they are the only planets that produce transits over the sun's disc as seen from the earth. As a... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 418 pages
...them with any degree of certainty. t The paths or orbits of the planets are not exactly circular, but elliptical. They are, therefore, sometimes nearer...planets which are nearer to the sun than the earth are called inferior planets, because their orbits are within that of the earth ; and those which are... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1850 - 408 pages
...them with any degree of certainty. t The paths or orbits of the planets are not exactly circular, but elliptical. They are, therefore, sometimes nearer...planets which are nearer to the sun than the earth are called inferior planets, because their orbits are within that of the earth ; and those which are... | |
 | A G. Hamilton - 1850 - 296 pages
...light are computed at seven times greater than on the Earth in summer. The planets Mercury and Venus are called inferior planets, because their orbits are within that of the Earthf ; therefore, when either of them come in a direct line with the Sun and Earth, it seems to pass... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1852 - 620 pages
...them with any degree of certainty. t The paths or orbits of the planets are not exactly circular, but elliptical. They are, therefore, sometimes nearer...to the sun than at others. The mean distance is the medinm between their greatest and least distance. Those planets which are nearer to the sun than the... | |
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They are, therefore, sometimes nearer to the sun than at others. The mean distance is the medium between their greatest and least distance. Those planets which are nearer to the sun than the earth are called inferior planets, because their orbits are... 
