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 90
equator of theplanet is considerably inclined to the ecliptic, and its pole at aconsiderable distance from the point of the horn. From seve-ral observations of this kind he found that the period of rotation llmust be twenty-three hours, twenty-one minutes, or only oneminute more than had been… … the period of the earths rotation, which is twenty-three hours,fifty-six minutes. I have stated these observations respectingthe rotation of Venus at some length, because they are notgenerally known to common readers on this subject, or no-ticed in modern elementary books on astronomy, and that…
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