 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1843 - 290 pages
...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
...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." We have thus pointed out some of the more remarkable circumstances relating to the planets which compose... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1844 - 276 pages
...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... | |
 | Great Britain. Council on Education - 1845 - 696 pages
...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. As to getting correct notions on this subject by drawing circles on paper, or, still worse, from those... | |
 | 1846 - 236 pages
...small orange, on a circle of four-fifths of a mile ; and Uranus, a full-sized cherry or small plum, on the circumference of a circle more than a mile and a half in diameter. To imitate the motions of the planets in their orbits, Mercury must pass through a space equal to its... | |
 | John Lee COMSTOCK (and HOBLYN (Richard Dennis)), John Lee COMSTOCK - 1846 - 506 pages
...circle of four-fifths of a mile; and Uranus (Georgium Sidus) a full-sized cherry, or small plum, upon the circumference of a circle more than a mile and a half in diameter. As to getting correct notions on this subject by drawing circles on paper, or still worse, from those... | |
 | Edward Bruce (bookseller.), John Bruce - 1846 - 398 pages
...orange, on a circle of four-fifths of a mile ; and Herschel a full sized cherry, or small plum, upon the circumference of a circle more than a mile and a half in diameter. These views ought to humble man. How insignificant is this earth, the theatre of so many passions,... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1799 - 392 pages
...small orange, on a circle of fourfifths 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." From this illustration it appears, that an orrery to represent both the proportional distances and... | |
 | Henry Duncan - 1847 - 430 pages
...small orange on a circle of four fifths of a mile ; and Uranus, a full-sized cherry or small plum, apon the circumference of a circle more than a mile and a half in diameter." t Whewell's Bridgewater Treatise, pp. 273, 274. which it consists, we may imagine that we make perceptible... | |
 | Thomas Keith - 1848 - 486 pages
...orango 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." Neptune will be represented by a good-sized plum on the circumference of a circle nearly two miles... | |
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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... 
