 | Agnes Mary Clerke - Astronomy - 1895 - 242 pages
...nothing else than a very eminent, large, and lucid planet, evidently the first, or, in strictness of speaking, the only primary one of our system ; all...atmosphere, and its diversified surface ; the rotation upon its axis, and the fall of heavy bodies, lead us on to suppose that it is also most probably inhabited,... | |
 | Self-culture - 1895 - 710 pages
...produce the effects with which we are acquainted. If this hypothesis be admitted, the sun "is similar to the other globes of the solar system with regard to its solidity, its atmosphere, its surface diversified with mountains and valleys, its rotation on its axis, and the fall of heavy... | |
 | James Sime - 1900 - 288 pages
...nothing else than a very eminent, large, and lucid planet, evidently the first, or in strictness of speaking, the only primary one of our system ; all...atmosphere, and its diversified surface ; the rotation upon its axis, and the fall of heavy bodies, leads us on to suppose that it is most probably inhabited,... | |
 | Agnes Mary Clerke - Astronomy - 1902 - 534 pages
...nothing else than a very eminent, large, and lucid planet, evidently the first, or, in strictness of speaking, the only primary one of our system ; all...the solar system with regard to its solidity, its 1 Resa Ursina, lib. iv., p. 507. 2 E. Wolf, Die Stmne und ihre FUcken, p. 12. 3 Schellen, Die Spectradanalyse,... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1874 - 800 pages
...nothing else than a very eminent, large, and lucid planet, evidently the first, or, in strictness of speaking, the only primary one of our system, all...atmosphere, and its diversified surface ; the rotation upon its axis, and the fall of heavy bodies, lead us <*i to suppose that it is most probably also inhabited,... | |
 | Patrick Moore - Science - 2000 - 222 pages
...large and lucid planet, evidently the first, or rather primary, one of our Solar System, all the rest being truly secondary to it. Its similarity to the...solidity, its atmosphere and its diversified surface, lead us to suppose that it is most probably also inhabited, like the rest of the planets, by beings... | |
 | Science - 1842 - 446 pages
...speaking, the only primary one of our system ; all others being truly secondary to it. Its similarity to other globes of the solar system with regard to its...rotation on its axis, and the fall of heavy bodies, leads us on to suppose that it is most prohably also inhahited, like the rest of the planets, by beings... | |
 | Military art and science - 1831 - 1000 pages
...large, and lucid planet, evidently the first, or rather the only primary one of our system, all the rest being truly secondary to it. Its similarity to the...solidity, its atmosphere, and its diversified surface, lead us to suppose that it is most probably also inhabited, like the rest of the planets, by beings... | |
 | Edward Cornelius Toune, Graeme Mercer Adam - 1895 - 116 pages
...produce the effects with which we are acquainted. If this hypothesis be admitted, the sun "is similar to the other globes of the solar system with regard to its solidity, its atmosphere, its surface diversified with mountains and valleys, its rotation on its axis, and the fall of heavy... | |
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... us on to suppose that it is most probably also inhabited, like the rest of the planets, by beings whose organs are adapted to the peculiar circumstances of that vast globe. 
