| 1833 - 618 sivua
...circle nearly half a mile across ; Saturn a 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. As to getting correct notions on this subject by drawing circles on paper, or, still worse,... | |
| Sir John Frederick William Herschel - 1833 - 444 sivua
...mile across ; Saturn a 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. As to getting correct notions on this subject by drawing circles on paper, or, still worse,... | |
| sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - 500 sivua
...mile across ; Saturn a 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. As to getting correct notions on this subject by drawing circles on paper, or, still worse,... | |
| 1833 - 468 sivua
...mile across; Saturn a 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 aud a half in diameter. As to getting correct notions on this subject by drawing circles on paper,... | |
| Augustus De Morgan - 1836 - 144 sivua
...circle nearly half a mile across ; Saturn, a 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. As to getting correct notions on this subject by drawing circles on paper, or still worse,... | |
| John Wesley - 1836 - 396 sivua
...circle of nearly half a mile across ; Saturn, a 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. As to getting correct notions on this subject by drawing circles on paper, it is out of... | |
| 1836 - 422 sivua
...mile across ; Saturn a 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. As to getting correct notions on this subject by drawing circles on paper, or, still worse,... | |
| William Mullinger Higgins - 1836 - 514 sivua
...mile across ; Saturn a small orange, on a circle of four 6fths 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,... | |
| Mrs. L. H. Tyler - 1837 - 302 sivua
...circle nearly half a mile across ; Saturn a 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. As to getting correct notions on this subject, by drawing circles on paper, or, still... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1838 - 266 sivua
...diameter; — Saturn, a small orange, on 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... | |
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