A compendium of astronomy; containing the elements of the science, familiarly explained and illustrated, with the latest discoveries. Adapted to the use of schools and academies, and of the general reader (1850)
Olmsted, Denison, 1791-1859 · New York, R. B. Collins · leaf 199
might naturally be expectedfrom the rapidity of his diurnal rotation, which is ac-complished in about 10 hours. A place on the equa-tor of Jupiter must turn 27 times as fast as on the ter-restrial equator. The distance of Jupiter from the sunis nearly 490,000,000 miles, and his revolution aroundthe… … and bright orb like the full moon; the spheroidal figurewhich theory assigns to revolving spheres, is here pal- 238. Jupiter.—State his diameter, volume, figure, revolu-tion on his axis, velocity of his equator, distance from the sun,periodic time. JUPITER. 187 pably exhibited to the eye; across…
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