School Atlas of Astronomy: Comprising, in Twenty-one Plates, a Complete Series of Illustrations of the Heavenly BodiesWilliam Blackwood and sons, 1869 - 70 strani |
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Stran 13
... Planets - Superior Planets . A view of the planetary system is exhibited in Plate 7. The sun occupies the centre , while the planets , accompanied by their respective satellites , revolve in orbits of various magnitudes around it ...
... Planets - Superior Planets . A view of the planetary system is exhibited in Plate 7. The sun occupies the centre , while the planets , accompanied by their respective satellites , revolve in orbits of various magnitudes around it ...
Stran 15
... Planets - Superior Planets . A view of the planetary system is exhibited in Plate 7. The sun occupies the centre , while the planets , accompanied by their respective satellites , revolve in orbits of various magnitudes around it ...
... Planets - Superior Planets . A view of the planetary system is exhibited in Plate 7. The sun occupies the centre , while the planets , accompanied by their respective satellites , revolve in orbits of various magnitudes around it ...
Stran 16
... planet is given in fig . 7 , Plate 1 . The line E F S A , passing through the earth , the sun , and the planet , is termed the line of conjunction . The planet is said to be in superior conjunction when it is at A , and to be in ...
... planet is given in fig . 7 , Plate 1 . The line E F S A , passing through the earth , the sun , and the planet , is termed the line of conjunction . The planet is said to be in superior conjunction when it is at A , and to be in ...
Stran 17
... planet . One or two remarks on the superior planets will be sufficient . We have seen that the inferior planets never deviate beyond a certain angular distance from the sun . The superior planets , on the other hand , are scen at all ...
... planet . One or two remarks on the superior planets will be sufficient . We have seen that the inferior planets never deviate beyond a certain angular distance from the sun . The superior planets , on the other hand , are scen at all ...
Stran 18
... superior planet being thus direct in conjunction and retrograde in opposi ... planets all revolve in the plane of the earth's orbit . This , however , is ... planets , the inclination of the orbit to the ecliptic is in every ...
... superior planet being thus direct in conjunction and retrograde in opposi ... planets all revolve in the plane of the earth's orbit . This , however , is ... planets , the inclination of the orbit to the ecliptic is in every ...
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amounts angle angular apparent diameter apparent paths apparent position apparition appear astronomers Atlas atmosphere axis body brightness celestial object celestial sphere centre circle circumstance comet constellation dark lines direction discovered discovery diurnal motion double star earth's orbit earth's surface ecliptic Edinburgh & London Engraved & Printed equator excentricity exhibits greatest heavens Herschel horizon inches inferior conjunction inferior planets instance Jupiter KEITH JOHNSTON light longitude magnitude Maps Mars mean distance mean solar Mercury meridian meteors millions of miles minor planets moon moon's motion movements naked eye nebula Neptune night node observations opposite passing perihelion phenomena planet revolves Printed in Colours rays refraction remarkable represented result revolving round right ascension ring round the sun satellites Saturn seen shadow shooting stars sidereal solar parallax solar spectrum south pole southern hemisphere spots sun's disc superior planets suppose synodic revolution telescope termed total eclipse Uranus velocity Venus visible William Blackwood
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Stran 17 - The squares of the periods of revolution of any two planets are proportional to the cubes of their mean distances from the sun.
Stran 70 - Director-General of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and Ireland ; and JAMES NICOL, FRSE, FGS, Professor of Natural History in the University of Aberdeen. Constructed by ALEX. KEITH JOHNSTON, FRSE, &c., Geographer to the Queen, Author of the "Physical Atlas,