 | John Russell Hind - 1851 - 152 pages
...of no less than 350 millions of miles, in which no planet was known to exist before the commencement of the present century. Three hundred years ago Kepler...attracted little further attention until Uranus was brought to light by Sir William Herschel in 1781, when several German astronomers revived the opinion... | |
 | John Russell Hind - Solar system - 1852 - 222 pages
...of no less than 350 millions of miles, in which no planet was known to exist before the commencement of the present century. Three hundred years ago Kepler...attracted little further attention until Uranus was brought to light by Sir William Herschel in 1781, when several German astronomers revived the opinion... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1855 - 882 pages
...no planet was known to exist before the commencement of the present century. Nearly three centuries ago, Kepler had pointed out something like a regular...as Mars, which was broken in the case of Jupiter. Having despaired of reconciling the actual state of the planetary system with any theory he could form... | |
 | Elias Loomis - Astronomy - 1856 - 408 pages
...no planet was known to exist before the commencement of the present century. Nearly three centuries ago, Kepler had pointed out something like a regular...as Mars, which was broken in the case of Jupiter. Having despaired of reconciling the actual state of the planetary system with any theory he could form... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1856 - 828 pages
...viz : one satellite belonging to the Earth, four to Jupiter, and five to Saturn. Kepler had long ago pointed out something like a regular progression in the distances of the planets as far as Mars, between which and Jupiter there intervened a distance of no less than 350,000,000 of miles, in which... | |
 | Elias Loomis - Astronomy - 1866 - 384 pages
...ASTEROIDS. 420. A deficient planet between Mars and Jupiter. — Nearly three centuries ago Kepler pointed out something like a regular progression in...as Mars, which was broken in the case of Jupiter. In 1772, Professor Bode announced the singular relation between the distances of the planets from the... | |
 | Elias Loomis - Astronomy - 1870 - 398 pages
...ASTEROIDS. 420. A deficient planet between Mars and Jupiter. — Nearly three centuries ago Kepler pointed out something like a regular progression in...as Mars, which was broken in the case of Jupiter. In 1772, Professor Bode announced the singular relation between the distances of the planets from the... | |
 | Education - 1856 - 400 pages
...nearly represent the relative distances of the planets from the sun. Three hundred years ago Kepler "pointed out something like a regular progression in the distances of the planets as far as Mars," and because this progression failed in the case of Jupiter, he is said to have conjectured the existence... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1855 - 490 pages
...centuries ago the immortal Kepler had pointed out something like a regular progression in the distance of the planets as far as Mars, which was broken in the case of Jupiter. Being unable to reconcile the actual state of the planetary system with any theory he could form respecting... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1855 - 492 pages
...centuries ago the immortal Kepler had pointed out something like a regular progression in the distance of the planets as far as Mars, which was broken in the case of Jupiter. Being unable to reconcile the actual state of the planetary system with any theory he could form respecting... | |
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Having despaired of reconciling the actual state of the planetary system with any theory he could form respecting it, he hazarded the conjecture that a planet really existed between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, and that its smallness alone prevented... 