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 54
ere enumerated. The orbits of thenew planets, Vesta, Juno, Ceres, and Pallas, are representedas crossing each other, as they do in nature ; and the portionof a long ellipse which crosses the orbits of all the planetsrepresents the orbit of a comet. The proportional distancesand magnitudes of the… … Copernicus, and now received by all astronomers. I shallfirst state those which may be called presumptive arguments,or which amount to a high degree of probability, and thenbriefly illustrate those which I consider as demonstrative.Having already endeavoured to prove the diurnal rotation ofthe…
Astronomy
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