 | 1833 - 618 pages
...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...a circle more than a mile and a half in diameter. As to getting correct notions on this subject by drawing circles on paper, or, still worse, from those... | |
 | sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - 500 pages
...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 and a half in diameter. As to getting correct notions on this subject by drawing circles on paper, or, still worse, from those... | |
 | Sir John Frederick William Herschel - 1833 - 444 pages
...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 and a half in diameter. As to getting correct notions on this subject by drawing circles on paper, or, still worse, from those... | |
 | 1833 - 468 pages
...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,... | |
 | Augustus De Morgan - 1836 - 140 pages
...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...a circle more than a mile and a half in diameter. As to getting correct notions on this subject by drawing circles on paper, or still worse, from those... | |
 | John Wesley - 1836 - 398 pages
...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...a circle more than a mile and a half in diameter. As to getting correct notions on this subject by drawing circles on paper, it is out of the question.... | |
 | 1836 - 422 pages
...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 and a half in diameter. As to getting correct notions on this subject by drawing circles on paper, or, still worse, from those... | |
 | William Mullinger Higgins - 1836 - 514 pages
...mile across ; Saturn a small orange, on a circle of four 6fths of a mile ; and Uranus a full sized cherry, or small plum, upon the circumference of a circle more than a mile and a half in diameter. As to getting correct notions on this subject by drawing circles on paper, or, still worse, from those... | |
 | Mrs. L. H. Tyler - 1837 - 302 pages
...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...a circle more than a mile and a half in diameter. As to getting correct notions on this subject, by drawing circles on paper, or, still worse, from those... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - 1838 - 268 pages
...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...To imitate the motions of the planets, in the above Suppose the sun be represented by a ball of two feet in diameter, mentioned orbits, Mercury must describe... | |
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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... 
