 | Thomas Keith - Astronomy - 1819 - 380 pages
...entire revolution round him? This is easily answered by considering that while Venus is going round the sun, the earth is going round him the same way, though...the time of this planet's rotation on its axis is equally uncertain ; that its atmosphere is very considerable; that it has probably inequalities on... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1819 - 376 pages
...is a little reddish. Some spots have been observed upon its surface, from which its rotation round its axis, and the inclination of its axis to the plane of its orbit, have been determined. This planet sometimes appears gibbous, but never horned, like the moon, which shews that... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1819 - 370 pages
...is a little reddish. Some spots have been observed upon its surface, from which its rotation round its axis, and the inclination of its axis to the plane of its orbit, have been determined. This planet sometimes appears gibbous, but never horned, like the moon, which shews that... | |
 | Thomas Keith - 1821 - 408 pages
...next transits, in succession, will fall on the 8th of December, 1874,. and on the 7th of June, 2OO4. The time which this planet takes to revolve on its...atmosphere is very considerable ; that it has probably * The place of the ascending node of Venus for 175O was 14° 26' 18" in Gemini, and its variation in... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - Marine insurance - 1822 - 1008 pages
...revolution round him? This is easily answered, by considering that, while Venus is going round the sun, the earth is going round him the same way, though...planet, published in the Philosophical Transactions lor 1793, concludes, that the time of this planet's rotation on its axis is uncertain, and that the... | |
 | John Imison - Art - 1822 - 528 pages
...is a little reildish. Some spots have been observed* upoh its surface, from which its rotation round its axis, and the inclination of its axis to the plane of its orbit, have been determined. Ceres Ferdinandea is a very small planet, situated next without Mars ; it was discovered... | |
 | Thomas Keith - Globes - 1826 - 360 pages
...next transits, in succession, will fall on the 8th of December, 1874, and on the 7th of June, 2004. The time which this planet takes to revolve on its...its orbit, have been given by different astronomers: vide the last product by 113, you obtain the circumference of the planet's orbit in miles. This circumference... | |
 | Sarah S. Cornell - Geography - 1857 - 420 pages
...from the equator to the poles, where it altogether ceases. The revolution of the earth about the sun, and the inclination of its axis to the plane of its orbit, cause the change of seasons. The extremities of the earth's axis are called the poles of the earth.... | |
 | John George Hodgins - Canada - 1858 - 142 pages
...the sun. The daily rotation of the earth produces day and night. Its annual revolution round the aun, and the inclination of its axis to the plane of its orbit, cause the change of seasons known as Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter. 3. The other Heavenly Bodies... | |
 | Sophia S. Cornell - Geography - 1861 - 414 pages
...from the equator to the poles, where it altogether ceases. The revolution of the earth about the sun, and the inclination of its axis to the plane of its orbit, cause the change of seasons. The extremities of the earth's axis are called the poles of the earth.... | |
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The time which this planet takes to revolve on its axis, and the inclination of its axis to the plane of its orbit, have been given by different astronomers ; but Dr. Herschel, from a long series of observations on this planet, published in the Philosophical... 
