 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
 | Denison Olmsted - Astronomy - 1858 - 454 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.... | |
 | Alfred Wilks Drayson - Earth (Planet) - 1859 - 130 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;...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 - 1860 - 698 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.... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1873 - 336 pages
...ears, and one mouth. So in the heavens, as in a microcosm, or great world, there are two favourable stars, Jupiter and Venus ; two unpropitious, Mars...undecided and indifferent. From which, and from many ether phenomena of nature, such as the seven metals, etc., which it were tedious to enumerate, we gather... | |
 | Robert Kalley Miller - Astronomy - 1873 - 208 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...and Mercury alone, undecided and indifferent. From these, and from many other phenomena of nature, which it were tedious to enumerate, we gather that... | |
 | 1881 - 74 pages
...a macrocosm, or great world, there are two favorable stars, Jupiter and Venus ; two unpropitiofls, Mars and Saturn ; two luminaries, the Sun and Moon...and Mercury alone, undecided and indifferent. From these, and from many other phenomena of nature, which it were tedious to enumerate, we gather that... | |
 | Joel Dorman Steele - Astronomy - 1884 - 352 pages
...that now occupied the mind of Newton, let us apply the laws of motion as we have learned them in * As a specimen of the arguments adduced against the...indifferent. From which, and from many other phenomena in Nature, such as the seven metals, etc., we gather that the number of planets Is necessarily seven.... | |
 | Joel Dorman Steele - Astronomy - 1884 - 358 pages
...apply the laws of motion as we have learned them in * As a specimen of the arguments adduced agair.ct the new system, the following by Sizzi is a fair instance....unpropitious, Mars and Saturn ; two luminaries, the bun ami Moon ; and Mercury alone, undecided and indifferent. From which, and from many other phenomena... | |
 | Edward Clodd - Evolution - 1897 - 312 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 and...and Mercury alone undecided and indifferent. From these and many other phenomena of Nature, which it were tedious to enumerate, we gather that the number... | |
 | Joel Dorman Steele - Astronomy - 1899 - 374 pages
...in the heavens there are two favorable stars, Jupiter and Venus; two unpropitious, Mars and Saturu ; two luminaries, the Sun and Moon ; and Mercury alone, undecided and indifferent. From which, was now fully established. Philosophers gradually adopted this view, and the Ptolemaic theory became... | |
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