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 70
ll be much morevivid and splendid than they appear on the scenery of ourterrestrial mansion; and since it appears highly probable thatthere are elevated mountains on this planet, if they be adornedwith a diversity of colour, and of rural and artificial objects,they must present to the beholder a… … While the intensity of the solar light on this planet is aboutseven times greater than on the earth, the light on the surfaceof Uranus, the most distant planet of the system, is 360 timesless than that on the earth ; for the square of the earths dis-tance, as formerly stated, is…
Astronomy
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