 Jupiter a moderate-sized orange, in a circle nearly half a mile across; Saturn a small orange, on a circle of four-fifths of a mile...  Astronomy - Page 275by sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833Full view - About this book
 | Lewis Tomlinson - Astronomy - 1840 - 362 pages
...mile across; Saturn, a small orange, on a circle of four-fifths of a mile; and Uranus, a full-sized cherry, or small plum, upon the circumference of a circle more than a mile and a half in diameter." But when the student of Astronomy shall have come to form a just estimate of the extent of the solar... | |
 | Charles Benjamin Tayler - 1840 - 398 pages
...of about a mile's diameter ; and Uranus or the Georgium Sidus, a full sized cherry or small plum on the circumference of a circle more than a mile and a half in diameter." Such are the contents and relative dimensions of the solar system. Vast as are these notions of magnitude... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Geography - 1841 - 516 pages
...mile across ; Saturn, a small orange, in a circle of four fifths of a mile ; and Uranus, a full-sized cherry or small plum upon the circumference of a circle, more than a mile and a half in diameter." II. THE EARTH, ITS FIGURE, DIMENSIONS, &c. 1. The Earth. The earth is a planet, of a globular shape,... | |
 | T H. Howe - 1842 - 458 pages
...half-a-mile across ; Saturn a small orange, on a circle of four-fifths of a mile ; and Uranus a full-sized cherry, or small plum, upon the circumference of a circle more than a mile and a half in diameter." In the lines next following, the scale of distances and magnitudes just given from Sir J. Herschel... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1843 - 290 pages
...mile across ; Saturn a small orange, on a circle of four-fifths of a mile; and Uranus a full-sized cherry, or small plum, upon the circumference of a circle more than a mile and a half in diameter. To imitate the motions of the planets in these orbits, Mercury must pass through a space equal to its... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - Astronomy - 1843 - 604 pages
...mile across ; Saturn a small orange, on a circle of four-fifths of a mile ; and Uranus a full-sized cherry, or small plum, upon the circumference of a circle more than a mile and a half in diameter. To imitate the motions of the planets in these orbits, Mercury must pass through a space equal to its... | |
 | Mary Milner - 1844 - 788 pages
...feet. Jupiter a moderate-sized orange, in a circle nearly half a mile across. Saturn a small orange, in a circle of four-fifths of a mile : and Uranus a full...a circle more than a mile and a half in diameter." We have thus pointed out some of the more remarkable circumstances relating to the planets which compose... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1844 - 276 pages
...Saturn, a small orange, on a circle of four fifths of a mile in diameter, and Herschel a full-sized cherry or small plum, upon the circumference of a circle more than a mile and a half in diameter. " To imitate the motions of the planets in the above mentioned orbits, Mercury must describe its own... | |
 | M. C. Best - Creation - 1844 - 204 pages
...half a mile across: Saturn, a small orange on a circle four-fifths of a mile: and Uranus, a full-sized cherry or small plum, upon the circumference of a circle more than a mile and half in diameter.! Besides these interesting bodies, the hea• Herschel'e Astronomy, p. 286. t These... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Biography - 1844 - 344 pages
...mile across ; SATURN, a small orange, in an orbit of four fifths of a mile ; and URANUS, a cherry, on the circumference of a circle more than a mile and a half in diameter. We shall now proceed to give a more particular account of these members of the solar system. THE SUN.... | |
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