 | Charles Augustus Young - Astronomy - 1889 - 518 pages
...system : — " Choose any well-levelled field. On it place a globe two feet in diameter. This will represent the sun. Mercury will be represented by...grain of mustard seed on the circumference of a circle 164 feet in diameter for its orbit; Venus, a pea, on a circle of 284 feet in diameter; the Earth, also... | |
 | Richard S. Peale - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 548 pages
...any well-leveled field, and on it place a globe two pleted in about 28,000 years. feet in diameter to represent the sun. Mercury will be represented...a grain of mustard seed on the circumference of a Sun-Spots. circle 164 feet in diameter for its orbit; Venus, a pea, on a Sun-spots, as they are generally... | |
 | Christianity - 1893 - 814 pages
...solar or planetary system. Choose any well-leveled field. On it plnco a globe two feet in diameter to represent the sun. Mercury will be represented...of mustard seed, on the circumference of a circle 164 feet in diameter for its orbit ; Venus a pea, on a circle 284 feet in diameter ; the Earth a little... | |
 | Sir Richard Gregory - Geomorphology - 1893 - 320 pages
...globe two feet in diameter ; this will Fig. 27. Portions of Planetary Orbits from Mars to Neptune. represent the sun. Mercury will be represented by...of mustard seed, on the circumference of a circle 1 64 feet in diameter for its orbit ; Venus, a pea on a circle of 284 feet in diameter; the Earth also... | |
 | A. L. Selby - Mechanics - 1893 - 320 pages
...of the members of the solar system. On a level field place a globe two feet in diameter ; this will represent the Sun ; Mercury will be represented by a grain of mustard seed, moving on the circumference of a circle 1 64 feet in diameter ; Venus by a pea on a circle 284 feet... | |
 | Charles Augustus Young - Astronomy - 1894 - 520 pages
...our system : — "Choose any well-levelled field. On it place a globe two feet in diameter. This will represent the sun. Mercury will be represented by...grain of mustard seed on the circumference of a circle 164 feet in diameter for its orbit ; Venus, a pea, on a circle of 284 feet in diameter ; the Earth,... | |
 | David Peck Todd - Astronomy - 1897 - 498 pages
...Choose any well-leveled field or bowling green. On it place a globe two feet in diameter ; this will represent the sun ; Mercury will be represented by...of mustard seed, on the circumference of a circle 164 feet in diameter for its orbit; Venus a pea, on a circle of 284 feet in diameter ; the earth also... | |
 | Charles Augustus Young - Astronomy - 1897 - 554 pages
...well-levelled field. On it place a globe two feet in diameter. This will represent the snn. Mercury will he represented by a grain of mustard seed on the circumference of a circle 164 feet in diameter for its orbit ; Veniis, a pea, on a circle of 284 feet in diameter ; the Earth,... | |
 | Charles Augustus Young - Astronomy - 1898 - 556 pages
...well-levelled field. On it place a globe two feet in diameter. This will represent the sun. Mercury will he represented by a grain of mustard seed on the circumference of a circle 164 feet in diameter for its orbit ; Venus, a pea, on a circle of 284 feet in diameter ; the Earth,... | |
 | David Peck Todd - Astronomy - 1899 - 494 pages
...Choose any well leveled field or bowling-green. On it place a globe, two feet in diameter; this will represent the Sun ; Mercury will be represented by...of mustard seed, on the circumference of a circle 164 feet in diameter for its orbit; Venus a pea. on a circle of 284 feet in diameter; the Earth also... | |
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On it place a globe, two feet in diameter; this will represent the Sun; Mercury will be represented by a grain of mustard seed, on the circumference of a circle 164 feet in diameter for its orbit; Venus a pea, on a circle 284 feet in diameter; the Earth... 
