The heavens above: a popular handbook of astronomy (1882)
Gillet, J. A. (Joseph Anthony), 1837-1908 · New York, Chicago, Potter, Ainsworth, & Co. · leaf 161
about twenty-eight times as great as atthe surface of the earth. This is because the distance fromthe surface of the sun to its centre is much greater thanfrom the surface to the centre of the earth. 140. Size of the Sun Compared with thai of tlie Planets.— The size of the sun compared with that of… … apparent size of the sun as seen from the different planets.The apparent diameter of the sun decreases as the distancefrom it increases, and the disk of the sun decreases as thesquare of the distance from it increases. 141. The Distance of the Sun.—-The mean distance ASTRONOMY. 143 of the sun from…
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