 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
 | William Louis Poteat - Religion and science - 1915 - 168 pages
...should have moons. They argued from the analogy of the seven windows set in the microcosm of the head and from " many other phenomena of nature, such as the seven metals, etc., that the number of the planets is necessarily seven." There was no need to look through Galileo's telescope,... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1908 - 920 pages
...favorable stars, Jupiter and Venus ; two unpropltious, Mars and Saturn; two luminaries, the Sun and the Moon; and Mercury alone, undecided and indifferent....phenomena of nature, such as the seven metals, etc., which It were tedious to enumerate, we gather that the number of planets is necessarily seven," More... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1908 - 920 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;...unpropitious, Mars and Saturn ; two luminaries, the Sun and the Moon ; and Mercury alone, undecided and indifferent. From which, and from many other phenomena... | |
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - Biography & Autobiography - 1954 - 452 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 and Saturn; two luminaries, the sun and the moon; and Mercury alone undecided and indifferent, from which, and from many other phenomena of... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Astronomy - 1840 - 458 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.3 which it were tedious to enumerate, we gather that the riumber of planets is necessarily seven.... | |
 | 1867 - 428 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,) two unpropitious, (Mars and Saturn,) and Mercury alone undecided and indifferent. From which, and many other phenomena of Nature, such as... | |
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