 | Richard Green Parker - Physics - 1838 - 266 pages
...Saturn, a small 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 and a half in diameter. " To imitate the motions of the planets in the above mentioned orbits, Mercury must describe... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - Astronomy - 1838 - 268 pages
...orange, in a circle of four fifths of a mile ; and Uranus (Herschel) a full sized cherry, or small plumb, upon the circumference of a circle more than a mile and a half in diameter." To imitate the motions of the planets, in the above Suppose the sun be represented by... | |
 | Thomas Lockerby - 1839 - 566 pages
...circle nearly half a mile across — Saturn 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. To imitate the motions of the planets, in the above mentioned orbits, Mercury must describe... | |
 | Periodicals - 1839 - 272 pages
...a mile across; Saturn 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." • See Saturday Maga»ine, Vol. XII., p. KB. But when the student of Astronomy shall... | |
 | Henry Duncan - God - 1839 - 422 pages
...mile across ; Saturn, 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." t Whewell's Bridgewater Treatise, pp. 273, 274. which it consists, we may imagine that... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Zoology - 1840 - 382 pages
...circle nearly half a mile across ; Saturn, a 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 the different members of this system are particularly described under the proper heads... | |
 | Lewis Tomlinson - Astronomy - 1840 - 362 pages
...mile across; Saturn, 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." But when the student of Astronomy shall have come to form a just estimate of the extent... | |
 | Charles Benjamin Tayler - 1840 - 398 pages
...of about a mile's diameter ; and Uranus or the Georgium Sidus, a full sized cherry or small plum on the circumference of a circle more than a mile and a half in diameter." Such are the contents and relative dimensions of the solar system. Vast as are these... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Geography - 1841 - 516 pages
...mile across ; Saturn, a small orange, in 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." II. THE EARTH, ITS FIGURE, DIMENSIONS, &c. 1. The Earth. The earth is a planet, of a... | |
 | T H. Howe - 1842 - 458 pages
...half-a-mile across ; Saturn 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." In the lines next following, the scale of distances and magnitudes just given from Sir... | |
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Mars a rather large pin's head, on a circle of 654 feet; Juno, Ceres, Vesta, and Pallas, grains of sand, in orbits of from 1000 to 1200 feet; Jupiter a moderate-sized orange... 
