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... VENUS , ' RENDU'S " THEORY OF THE GLACIERS OF SAVOY , " etc. , etc. WITII ILLUSTRATIONS [ ISSUED FOR THE RATIONALIST PRESS ASSOCIATION , LIMITED ] LONDON : WATTS & CO . , 17 , JOHNSON'S COURT , FLEET STREET , E. C. PREFACE - CONTENTS ...
... VENUS , ' RENDU'S " THEORY OF THE GLACIERS OF SAVOY , " etc. , etc. WITII ILLUSTRATIONS [ ISSUED FOR THE RATIONALIST PRESS ASSOCIATION , LIMITED ] LONDON : WATTS & CO . , 17 , JOHNSON'S COURT , FLEET STREET , E. C. PREFACE - CONTENTS ...
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... Venus , Mars , Jupiter , and Saturn . We have records of observations carried on under Asshurbanapal , who sent astronomers to different parts to study celestial phenomena . Here is one : — To the Director of Observations , -My Lord ...
... Venus , Mars , Jupiter , and Saturn . We have records of observations carried on under Asshurbanapal , who sent astronomers to different parts to study celestial phenomena . Here is one : — To the Director of Observations , -My Lord ...
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... Venus to be on a bar passing through the sun , and to be between the earth and the sun . The centres of the epicycles of Mars , Jupiter , and Saturn were supposed to be further away than the sun . Mercury and Venus were supposed to ...
... Venus to be on a bar passing through the sun , and to be between the earth and the sun . The centres of the epicycles of Mars , Jupiter , and Saturn were supposed to be further away than the sun . Mercury and Venus were supposed to ...
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... Venus at the sun , and to extend the same system to the major planets . Some- thing of this sort had been proposed by the Egyptians ( we are told by Cicero and others ) , and was accepted by Tycho Brahe ; and was as true a ...
... Venus at the sun , and to extend the same system to the major planets . Some- thing of this sort had been proposed by the Egyptians ( we are told by Cicero and others ) , and was accepted by Tycho Brahe ; and was as true a ...
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... Venus to revolve round the sun , and to be carried with him in his annual motion round the earth . He noticed that the same supposition , if extended to Mars , Jupiter , and Saturn , would explain easily why they , and especially Mars ...
... Venus to revolve round the sun , and to be carried with him in his annual motion round the earth . He noticed that the same supposition , if extended to Mars , Jupiter , and Saturn , would explain easily why they , and especially Mars ...
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