Celestial scenery, or, The Wonders of the planetary system displayed : illustrating the perfections of deity and a plurality of worlds (1845)
Dick, Thomas, 1774-1857, Parker, E. S., former owner. DSI, David H. DeVorkin Collection (Smithsonian Institution. Libraries) DSI · Philadelphia : Published by Edward C. Biddle · leaf 109
rays from their upper surfaces, and sometimes like dark spotsover the land. The following figures represent two of theviews to which we have alluded. Fig. XXV. represents the appearance of the earth whenthe middle of the Pacific is in the centre of the view. Fig.XXVI. is the appearance when the… … Internal Structure of the Uarth.—We are now pretty wellacquainted with the general outline of the surface of the earth,and the different ramifications of land and water with whichit is diversified, except those regions which lie adjacent tothe poles. But our knowledge of its internal structure…
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![An illustration from Sidereus nuncius : magna, longeque admirabilia spectacula pandens, suspiciendaque proponens vnicuique, praesertim verò philosophis, atq[ue] astronomis, quae à Galileo Galileo ... perspicilli nuper à se reperti beneficio sunt obseruata in lunae facie, fixis innumeris, lacteo circulo, stellis nebulosis, apprime verò in quatuor planetis circa Iouis stellam disparibus interuallis, atque periodis, celeritate mirabili circumuolutis; quos, nemini in hanc vsque diem cognitos, nouissimè author depraehendit primus; atque Medicea sidera nuncupandos decreuit (1610)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-sidereusnunciusm00gali-25-8.webp)
