 | Sir John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1833 - 444 pages
...mass. No doubt the most remarkable of their peculiarities must lie in this condition of their state. A man placed on one of them would spring with ease...earth from leaping a yard. On such planets giants might exist ; and those enormous animals, which on earth require the buoyant power of water to counteract... | |
 | sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - 500 pages
...mass. No doubt the most remarkable of their peculiarities must lie in this condition of their state. A man placed on one of them would spring with ease...earth from leaping a yard. On such planets giants might exist ; and those enormous animals, which on earth require the buoyant power of water to counteract... | |
 | 1833 - 618 pages
...peculiarities must lie in this condition of their state. A man placed on one of them would spring with ease 6O feet high, and sustain no greater shock in his descent...earth from leaping a yard. On such planets, giants might exist ; and those enormous animals, which on earth require the buoyant power of water to counteract... | |
 | 1834 - 596 pages
...condition of their state. A man placed on one of them would spring with ease 60 feet high, and sustain Bo greater shock in his descent than he does on the earth from leaping i yard. On such planets giants might exist ; and those enormous animals, which on earth require the... | |
 | Thomas Lockerby - 1839 - 566 pages
...ultra zodiacal planets, Juno, Ceres, Vesta, and Pallas, is no less a bar to any inquiry into them. A man placed on one of them would spring, with ease,...descent, than he does on the earth from leaping a yard. The earth has one moon or satellite, Jupiter four, Saturn seven, Uranus at least two, probably six.... | |
 | Astrology - 1841 - 266 pages
...peculiar features in their physical qualities. " A man placed on one of these would spring with ease sixty feet high, and sustain no greater shock in his descent...earth from leaping a yard. On such planets giants might exist, and those enormous animals, which on earth require the buoyant power of water to counteract... | |
 | 1853 - 588 pages
...quicksilver, where to sink is impossible. ' A man placed on one of them would spring with ease sixty feet high, and sustain no greater shock in his descent...earth from leaping a yard. On such planets giants might exist, and those enormous animals which on earth require the buoyant power of water to counteract... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1849 - 672 pages
...eye. No doubt the most remarkable of their peculiarities must lie in this condition of their state. A man placed on one of them would spring with ease...earth from leaping a yard. On such planets giants might exist; and those enormous animals, which on earth require the buoyant power of water to counteract... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1850 - 604 pages
...quicksilver, where to sink is impossible. " A man placed on one of them would spring with ease sixty feet high, and sustain no greater shock in his descent...earth from leaping a yard. On such planets giants might exist, and those enormous animals, which on earth require the buoyant power of water to counteract... | |
 | 1850 - 600 pages
...quicksilver, where to sink is impossible. " A man placed on one of them would spring with ease sixty feet high, and sustain no greater shock in his descent...earth from leaping a yard. On such planets giants might exist, and those enormous animals, which on earth require the buoyant power of water to counteract... | |
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A man placed on one of them would spring with ease 60 feet high, and sustain no greater shock in his descent than he does on the earth from leaping a yard. 
