 | 1844 - 784 sidor
...Around this luminary, at different distances, the following planets revolve in the order here stated — Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars — Vesta, Juno, Ceres, Pallas — Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus. Of all the objects in the visible creation with which we are acquainted, there is none whose magnitude... | |
 | Edward Riddle - 1824 - 572 sidor
...mean distance of about 240,000 miles. The planets, in the order of their distances from the sun, are Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars, Vesta, Juno, Ceres, Pallas, Jupiter, Saturn, and Herschel. — Mercury, and Venus, which are nearer the sun than the earth, are called inferior planets... | |
 | First steps - 1828 - 456 sidor
...a bluish-white colour. WILLIAM. How many planets, then, are there altogether ? ELIZABETH. Eleven : Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars, Vesta, Juno, Ceres, Pallas, Jupiter, Saturn, and Herschel. MOTHER. As the distances of the different planets from the sun are rather difficult to remember... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1832 - 286 sidor
...eighteen secondary planets or moons, and a number of comets. 361. The names of the primary planets are Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars, Vesta, Juno, Ceres, Pallas, Jupiter, Saturn, and Herschel. 362. The earth has one moon, Jupiter four, Saturn seven, and Herschel six. The other seven... | |
 | Nathaniel Gilbert Huntington - 1835 - 318 sidor
...the same time revolving like a wheel, each on its own axis. There are eleven primary planets, viz., Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars, Vesta, Juno, Ceres, Pallas, Jupiter, Saturn, and HerscheL Besides these, there are 18 secondary planets or moons, which revolve around their respective... | |
 | 1835 - 240 sidor
...The^pfimary planets are situated, with respect to their distances from the sun, in the following order : Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars, Vesta, Juno, Ceres, Pallas, Jupiter, Saturn, and the Herschell planet, or the Georgium Sidus. Of these, our Earth is accompanied by one moon, Jupiter... | |
 | William Pinnock - 1836 - 734 sidor
...bodies which in our system regard the sun »s lis centre of their orbits; they are in number eleven, Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars, Vesta, Juno, Ceres, Pallas, Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus. • Planetarium, an instrument made use of for showing tbe phenomena of the heavenly bodies. Pleiades,... | |
 | John Gummere - 1837 - 506 sidor
...its inventor Copernicus. The order of the planets with respect to their distances from the sun, is Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars, Vesta, Juno, Ceres, Pallas, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. that the sun's apparent orbit is an ellipse, and that the radius vector describes equal areas in equal... | |
 | Frances Barbara Burton - 1837 - 202 sidor
...receive the impulses of light, heat, and motion, from the Sun. The names of these primary planets, are, Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars, Vesta Juno, Ceres, Pallas, Jupiter, Saturn, and Herschell. The Earth (which we inhabit,) being the third in distance from the Sun. 3rd Class. — Eighteen... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1838 - 426 sidor
...universe. The following diagram exhibits the order of the planets in the solar system : In the following figure the small central star represents the sun,...order here enumerated. The orbits of the new planets, Vesja, Juno, Ceres, and Pallas, are represented as crossing each other, as they do in nature ; and... | |
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... above forty-two thousand nine hundred years. Such is the order, and such are the ample dimensions of that system of which we form a part ; and yet it is but a mere speck in the map of the universe. The following diagram exhibits the order of the planets... 
