| Sir William Cecil Dampier Dampier, Margaret Dampier Dampier - 1924 - 312 pages
...relations, which may throw light on their origin. Considering it with attention, we are astonished to see all the planets move round the Sun from west to east,...of rotation have been observed, turn on their own axes, in the same direction, and nearly in the same plane as their motion of projection. The satellites... | |
| Hector Macpherson - 1926 - 220 pages
...consideration of the Solar System as it is at the present time. ' We are astonished ', he said, ' to see all the planets \ move round the Sun from west to...direction and nearly in the same plane with the planets.' The Sun and planets, too, he pointed out, rotate on their axis in the same direction, from west to... | |
| Mary Lynn Bryan, Barbara Bair, Maree de Angury, Jane Addams - 2010 - 716 pages
...relations, which may throw light on their origin. Considering it with attemion, we are astonished to see all the planets move round the Sun from west to east,...satellites in which a motion of rotation have been ohserved, tum on their own axes, in the same direction, and nearly in the same plane as their motion... | |
| Sir William Cecil Dampier Dampier, Margaret Dampier - 2003 - 312 pages
...relations, which may throw light on their origin. Considering it with attention, we are astonished to see all the planets move round the Sun from west to east,...of rotation have been observed, turn on their own axes, in the same direction, and nearly in the same plane as their motion of projection. The satellites... | |
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