ail steadily for five years before reaching its destination. It is a wide space ; but how amazing is the thought, that there would not be room in such a space for the body of the Sun ! Not only so ; if we were to imagine the globe of the Sun entirely hollowed out, and the Earth placed in its… … THE EAETH AND MOON. Scale, one twelfth of an inch to eight thousand miles. To represent the sun correctly on this scale, it should be nine inches and one sixth in diameter, and placed at a distance of eighty-two feet five inches and seven twelfths of an inch. * Herschers 'Treatise/ p. 214 4
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