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" From these and other circumstances, many eminent astronomers are of opinion, that these four planets are the fragments of a large celestial body which once revolved between Mars and Jupiter, and which burst asunder by some tremendous convulsion, or some... "
Elements of Natural Philosophy: Embracing the General Principles of ... - Page 242
by Leonard Dunnell Gale - 1846 - 276 pages
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Plurality of worlds: or Letters, notes & memoranda ... occasioned by 'A ...

Alexander Maxwell (bookseller.) - 1817 - 240 pages
...the irregularities in this part of the system were produced by some great convulsion, and that the four planets are the fragments of a large celestial body which once existed between Mars and Jupiter. If we suppose these bodies to be independent planets, as they must...
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The New Jerusalem magazine and theological inspector

1827 - 404 pages
...From these and other circumstances, it has, with a high degree of probability, been concluded—that these four planets are the fragments of a large celestial body which once revolved ! - etween Mars and Jupiter, and had been burst asunder by some immense irruptive force. This idea...
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The Christian Philosopher, Or, The Connection of Science and Philosophy with ...

Thomas Dick - Religion and science - 1828 - 412 pages
...From these id other circumstances, it has, w,ith a high degree of probability, been concluded—that these four planets are the fragments of a large celestial body which once revolved be18 tween Mars and Jupiter, and which had been burst asunder by some immense irruptive force. This...
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The Geography of the Heavens, and Class Book of Astronomy: Accompanied by a ...

Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - Astronomy - 1838 - 350 pages
...represented. It icttuld be ice// for require him to observe jiarlicvlarly the pavilions of their orbila. From these and other circumstances, many eminent astronomers are of opinion, that these four planets are the frasments of a large celestial body which once revolved between Mars and Jupiter, and which hurst asunder...
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Youth's Book of Astronomy

John Lee Comstock - Astronomy - 1838 - 266 pages
...circumstances, which astronomers have discovered with respect to these planets, it was imagined that they are the fragments of a large celestial body which once revolved between Mars and Jupiter, and which had been burst asunder by some tremendous force. It is true, that no proof of this theory can be given,...
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A system of geography, including also the elements of astronomy

Thomas Ewing (of Edinburgh.) - 1839 - 348 pages
...the irregularities in this part of the system were produced by some great convulsion, and that the four planets are the fragments of a large celestial body which once existed between Mars and Jupiter. If we suppose these bodies to be independent planets, as they must...
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The Christian philosopher

Thomas Dick - 1840 - 370 pages
...From these and other circumstances, it has, with a high degree of probability, been concluded—that these four planets are the fragments of a large celestial...once revolved between Mars and Jupiter, and which had been burst asunder by some immense irruptive force. This idea seems to have occurred to Dr. Ólbers...
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Address ... at the anniversary meeting of the Royal society ... 1840

Spencer Joshua A. Compton (2nd marq. of Northampton.) - 1840 - 40 pages
...extraordinary anticipations. The labours of this Association had been hardly organized,when the remarkable discovery of Ceres by Piazzi on the first day of the present century, in almost the precise position which Bode's singular law had assigned to it, seemed at once to convert...
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The Geography of the Heavens: And Class-book of Astronomy; Accompanied by a ...

Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - Astronomy - 1842 - 344 pages
...of their orbit», and to state their different degrees of inclination ta the plane of the ecliplic. From these and other circumstances, many eminent astronomers...Piazzi, on the first day of the present century, drew the attention of all the astronomers of the age to that region of the sky, and every inch of it was...
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Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions ..., Volume 4

Royal Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1843 - 528 pages
...extraordinary anticipations. The labours of this Association had been hardly organized, when the remarkable discovery of Ceres by Piazzi on the first day of the present century, in almost the precise position which Bode's singular law had assigned to it, seemed at once to convert...
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