Nature, such as the seven metals, &,c., which it were tedious to enumerate, we gather that the number of planets is necessarily seven. Moreover, the satellites are invisible to the naked eye, and therefore can exercise no influence over the earth, and... Fourteen Weeks in Descriptive Astronomy - Page 31by Joel Dorman Steele - 1874 - 336 pagesFull view - About this book
| Church history - 1839 - 868 pages
...ears, and ona mouth ; so in the heavens/ as in a macrocosm or great world, there are two favourable stars (Jupiter and Venus,) two unpropitious (Mars and Saturn,) two luminaries (the Sun and Moon.) und Mercury alone undecided and indifferent. From which амЛ many other phenomena of nature, such... | |
| Denison Olmsted - Astronomy - 1841 - 486 pages
...nostrils, two eyes, two ears, and one mouth. So in the heavens, as in a macrocosm, or great world, there are two favorable stars, Jupiter and Venus ;...other phenomena of Nature, such as the seven metals, &,c., which it were tedious to enumerate, we gather that the number of planets is necessarily seven.... | |
| John Pringle Nichol - Astronomy - 1842 - 278 pages
...nostrils, two eyes, two ears, and one mouth, — so in the heavens, as in a macrocosm or great world, there are two favorable stars (Jupiter and Venus),...Mercury alone undecided and indifferent. From which and many other phenomena of Nature, such as the seven metals, &c., which it were tedious to enumerate,... | |
| Edward Robinson - 1847 - 792 pages
...nostrils, two eyes, two ears and one mouth — so in the heavens as in a microcosm or great world, there are two favorable stars. (Jupiter and Venus),...Mercury alone undecided and indifferent. From which and many other phenomena of Nature, such as the seven metals, &c., which it were tedious to enumerate,... | |
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...nostrils, two eyes, two ears and one mouth — so in the heavens as in a microcosm or great world, there are two favorable stars. (Jupiter and Venus),...Mercury alone undecided and indifferent. From which and many other phenomena of Na,ture, such as the seven metals, &c., which it were tedious to enumerate,... | |
| Religion - 1847 - 782 pages
...in a microcosm or great world, there are two favorable stars, (Jupiter and Venus), two un propitious (Mars and Saturn), two luminaries (the Sun and Moon),...Mercury alone undecided and indifferent. From which and many other phenomena of Nature, such as the seven metals, <fcc., which it were tedious to enumerate,... | |
| Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - Astronomy - 1851 - 366 pages
...ears, and one mouth. So in the heavens, as in a macrocosm, or great world, there are two favourable stars, Jupiter and Venus ; two unpropitious, Mars...other phenomena of nature, such as the seven metals, &c., which it were tedious to enumerate, we gather that the number of planets is necessarily seven.... | |
| Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - Astronomy - 1851 - 374 pages
...ears, and one mouth. So in the heavens, as in a macrocosm, or great world, there are two favourable stars, Jupiter and Venus ; two unpropitious, Mars...other phenomena of nature, such as the seven metals, &c., which it were tedious to enumerate, we gather that the number of planets is necessarily seven.... | |
| Denison Olmsted - Astronomy - 1855 - 484 pages
...nostrils, two eyes, two ears, and one mouth. So in the heavens, as in a macrocosm, or great world, there are two favorable stars, Jupiter and Venus ;...other phenomena of Nature, such as the seven metals, &c., which it were tedious to enumerate, we gather that the number of planets is necessarily seven.... | |
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...great world, there are two favourable stars, Jupiter and Venus ; two unpropitious, Mars and Saturn ; and Mercury, alone, undecided and indifferent. From...other phenomena of nature, such as the seven metals, &c., which it were tedious to enumerate, we gather that the number of the planets is necessarily seven.... | |
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