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... velocity of a planet decreases as its distance from the sun increases . CONJUNCTIONS OF PLANETS . - The grouping together of two or more planets within a limited area of the heavens is a rare event . The earliest record we have is the ...
... velocity of a planet decreases as its distance from the sun increases . CONJUNCTIONS OF PLANETS . - The grouping together of two or more planets within a limited area of the heavens is a rare event . The earliest record we have is the ...
Page 77
... velocity . While the planet is at B , we locate it a C on the ecliptic , in Gemini ; but at D , it appears to us to be at G , in Taurus . So that the planet has retrograded through an entire sign on the ecliptic , while its course all ...
... velocity . While the planet is at B , we locate it a C on the ecliptic , in Gemini ; but at D , it appears to us to be at G , in Taurus . So that the planet has retrograded through an entire sign on the ecliptic , while its course all ...
Page 96
... velocity ; that it is not fixed , but hanging in space , held by an invisible power of gravitation which it cannot evade ; that it is small and insignificant beside the mighty globes that so gently shine upon us in the far - off sky ...
... velocity ; that it is not fixed , but hanging in space , held by an invisible power of gravitation which it cannot evade ; that it is small and insignificant beside the mighty globes that so gently shine upon us in the far - off sky ...
Page 103
... velocity with which we are flying through the air , because the air moves with us . * Yet were the earth suddenly to stop its rotation , the terrible shock would , without doubt , destroy the entire race of man , and we , with houses ...
... velocity with which we are flying through the air , because the air moves with us . * Yet were the earth suddenly to stop its rotation , the terrible shock would , without doubt , destroy the entire race of man , and we , with houses ...
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... velocity of the earth . — We can see , by looking at the plate , that the velocity of the earth must vary in different portions of its orbit . When passing from the vernal equinox to aphelion , the attraction of the sun tends to check ...
... velocity of the earth . — We can see , by looking at the plate , that the velocity of the earth must vary in different portions of its orbit . When passing from the vernal equinox to aphelion , the attraction of the sun tends to check ...
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Page 31 - 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 therefore would be useless, and therefore do not exist.