 On it place a globe, two feet in diameter; this will represent the Sun; Mercury will be represented by a grain of mustard seed, on the circumference of a circle 164 feet in diameter for its orbit; Venus a pea, on a circle 284 feet in diameter; the Earth...  Mechanical Philosophy, Horology, and Astronomy - Page 511by William Benjamin Carpenter - 1848 - 575 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Periodicals - 1839 - 272 pages
...planets, referred to the Sun, we quote the following from Sir J. Herschel. "Choose any well levelled field or bowling-green. On it place a globe, two feet...represent the Sun; Mercury will be represented by a gram of mustard seed, on the circumference of a circle 164 feet in diameter for its orliii ; Venue... | |
 | sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - 500 pages
...magnitudes and distances of the parts of our system. Choose any well levelled field or bowling green. On it place a globe, two feet in diameter ; this will...the Sun ; Mercury will be represented by a grain of mustard seed, on the circumference of a circle 164 feet in diameter for its orbit ; Venus a pea, on... | |
 | 1833 - 618 pages
...magnitudes and distances of the parts of our system. Choose any well-levelled field or howling green. On it place a globe, two feet in diameter ; this will...the Sun ; Mercury will be represented by a grain of mustard seed, on the circumference of a circle 164 feet in diameter for its orbit; Venus a pea, on... | |
 | 1833 - 468 pages
...magnitudes and distances of the parts of our system. Choose any well levelled field or bowling green. On it place a globe, two feet in diameter; this will...the Sun; Mercury will be represented by a grain of mustard seed, on the t William of Malmesbury, 518. Holinshed, ii. 70. Lytteltou, Henry II. (8vo.) i.... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1834 - 406 pages
...magnitudes and distances of the parts of our system. Choose any well levelled field or bowling green. On it place a globe, two feet in diameter ; this will...the Sun ; Mercury will be represented by a grain of mustard seed, on the circumference of a circle 164 feet in diameter for its orbit; Venus a pea, on... | |
 | 1833 - 608 pages
...magnitudes and distances of the parts of our system Choose any well-levelled field or bowling greenOn it place a globe, two feet in diameter ; this will...the Sun ; Mercury will be represented by a grain of mustard seed, on the circumference of s circle 164 feet in diameter for its orbit; Venus s pea, on... | |
 | Child rearing - 1836 - 422 pages
...field or bowling-green, The Earth Saturn Georgium Sidus . 39 17 64 10 121 0 . 290 0 798 0 . 5406 0 on it place a globe two feet in diameter ; this will...grain of mustardseed, on the circumference of a circle of 164 feet in diameter for its orbit; Venus a pea, on a circle 284 feet in diameter ; the Earth also... | |
 | John Wesley - Natural history - 1836 - 398 pages
...Herschel's beautiful treatise on astronomy is perhaps the best that ever was attempted in words :—" Choose any well-levelled field or bowling-green ;...the sun; Mercury will be represented by a grain of mustard seed, on the circumference of a circle two hundred and eightyfour feet in diameter; the earth,... | |
 | Augustus De Morgan - Astronomy - 1836 - 140 pages
...volumes which preceded, with their clap-traps of millions of millions of miles. See the Work, p. 287. ' Choose any well-levelled field or bowling-green. On...the sun: Mercury will be represented by a grain of mustard seed, on the circumference of a circle 164 feet in diameter for its orbit; Venus, a pea on... | |
 | William Mullinger Higgins - Earth (Planet) - 1836 - 514 pages
...39 17 64 10 121 0 798 0 Georgium Sidus . 5406 0 on it place a globe two feet in diameter ; lhit win represent the sun ; Mercury will be represented by...grain of mustardseed, on the circumference of a circle of 164 feet in diameter for its orbit ; Venus a pea, on a circle 284 feet in diameter ; the Earth also... | |
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