 | Sir John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1833 - 444 pages
...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 - 618 pages
...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 W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - 500 pages
...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 - Earth (Planet) - 1836 - 514 pages
...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... | |
 | Child rearing - 1836 - 422 pages
...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... | |
 | John Wesley - Natural history - 1836 - 398 pages
...small orange, on a circle of fourfifths 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, it is out of the question.... | |
 | Augustus De Morgan - Astronomy - 1836 - 144 pages
...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... | |
 | Mrs. L. H. Tyler - Astronomy - 1837 - 302 pages
...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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Physics - 1838 - 266 pages
...orange, on a circle of four fifths of a mile in diameter, and Herschel a full-sized cherry or small plum, upon the circumference of a circle more than a mile...To imitate the motions of the planets in the above mentioned orbits, Mercury must describe its own diameter in 41 seconds; Venus in 4 minutes and 14 seconds,... | |
 | Christian Tract Society - 1838 - 80 pages
...a small orange, on a circle four-fifths of a mile j and Uranus, a full sized cherry, or small plum, upon the circumference of a circle more than a mile and a half in diameter." — Treatise on Astronomy, by Sir JOHN FW HERSCHEI, p. 287. B 13 " Yet, mamma," said Mary, after a... | |
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Jupiter a moderate-sized orange, in a circle nearly half a mile across; Saturn a small orange, on a circle of four-fifths of a mile... 
