 | William Whewell - Astronomy - 1833 - 298 pages
...to some of the examples which we shall adduce. 121 CHAPTER I. The Structure of the Solar System. Iff the cosmical considerations which we have to offer,...human contrivance and fabrication : in such machines every thing goes on L by contact and impulse : pressure, and force of all kinds, is exercised and transferred... | |
 | 1834 - 438 pages
...from the sun and of the satellites from their primaries, and the average or mean times of revolution of the planets round the sun, and of the satellites round their primaries. By the mean time of revolution, we mean the average of a large number of revolutions, one... | |
 | Natural theology - 1836 - 566 pages
...less regular than the rest. These planets are all nearly globular, and all revolve upon their axes. Some of them are accompanied by satellites, or attendant...common apprehension. We cannot illustrate it by a comparision with any machine of human contrivance and fabrication : in such machines everything goes... | |
 | Technology - 1837 - 538 pages
...BY JAMES a! Astronomical Society.) The following tables contain the number of years or revolutions of the planets round the sun, and of the satellites round their primaries during the above period, with the length of the year for each planet, also the period occupied... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - Astronomy - 1843 - 604 pages
...of universal attraction into its consequences, we shall find that it not only produces the regular motions of the planets round the sun, and of the satellites round their primaries, but that it must also occasion irregularitiet resulting from the action of these bodies... | |
 | William Whewell - Astronomy - 1852 - 244 pages
..."Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, revolve round the sun, at different distances, in orbits nearly circu lar, and nearly in one plane. Between Venus and Mars, our...human contrivance and fabrication ; in such machines every thing goes on by contact and impulse ; pressure, and force of all kinds, is exercised and transferred... | |
 | David Brewster - 1855 - 518 pages
...Professor of Mathematics at Pisa, in his work on the theory of Jupiter's Satellites.2 He considers the motions of the planets round the sun, and of the satellites round their primaries, as produced by some virtue residing in the central body. In speaking of the motion of bodies... | |
 | George Combe - 1857 - 348 pages
...motion ; but the Supernatural Power appears to have found no difficulty in doing so. The revolution of the planets round the sun, and of the satellites round their principal planets, are examples in point. We comprehend the laws which govern these evolutions, and... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 854 pages
...Lobeck's AgluoO'RPIMENT. See ABSESIU O'RRERY, a machine constructed for the purpose of exhibiting the motions of the planets round the sun, and of the satellites round their primaries, which was in high repute during the 18th and beginning of the 19th centuries, though now... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 854 pages
...Aglaophamus. O'RPIMENT. See AKSEXIC. O'BRERY, a machine constructed for the purpose of exhibiting the motions of the planets round the sun, and of the satellites round their primaries, which was in high repute during the 18th and beginning of the 19th centuries, though now... | |
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These planets are all nearly globular, and all revolve upon their axis. Some of them are accompanied by satellites, or attendant bodies which revolve about them; and these bodies also have their orbits nearly .circular, and nearly in the same plane as... 
