...regard to some of the examples which we shall adduce. CHAPTER I. The Structure of the Solar System. IN the cosmical considerations which we have to offer,...human, contrivance and fabrication : in such machines everything goes on by contact and impulse : pressure, and force of all kinds, is exercised and transferred...

...from the sun and of the satellites from their primaries, and the average or mean times of revolution of the planets round the sun, and of the satellites round their primaries. By the mean time of revolution, we mean the average of a large number of revolutions, one...

...less regular than the rest. These planets are all nearly globular, and all revolve upon their axes. Some of them are accompanied by satellites, or attendant...common apprehension. We cannot illustrate it by a comparision with any machine of human contrivance and fabrication : in such machines everything goes...

...BY JAMES a! Astronomical Society.) The following tables contain the number of years or revolutions of the planets round the sun, and of the satellites round their primaries during the above period, with the length of the year for each planet, also the period occupied...

...a solitary example, so far as we know, of such an appendage to a planet. These circular motions 01 the planets round the sun, and of the satellites round...primary planets, are all kept going by the attraction of tne respective central bodies, which restrains the corresponding revolving bodies from flying off....

...of universal attraction into its consequences, we shall find that it not only produces the regular motions of the planets round the sun, and of the satellites round their primaries, but that it must also occasion irregularitiet resulting from the action of these bodies...

...Professor of Mathematics at Pisa, in his work on the theory of Jupiter's Satellites.2 He considers the motions of the planets round the sun, and of the satellites round their primaries, as produced by some virtue residing in the central body. In speaking of the motion of bodies...

...motion ; but the Supernatural Power appears to have found no difficulty in doing so. The revolution of the planets round the sun, and of the satellites round their principal planets, are examples in point. We comprehend the laws which govern these evolutions, and...

...Aglaophamus. O'RPIMENT. See AKSEXIC. O'BRERY, a machine constructed for the purpose of exhibiting the motions of the planets round the sun, and of the satellites round their primaries, which was in high repute during the 18th and beginning of the 19th centuries, though now...

...Lobeck's AgluoO'RPIMENT. See ABSESIU O'RRERY, a machine constructed for the purpose of exhibiting the motions of the planets round the sun, and of the satellites round their primaries, which was in high repute during the 18th and beginning of the 19th centuries, though now...