The heavens above: a popular handbook of astronomy (1882)
Gillet, J. A. (Joseph Anthony), 1837-1908 · New York, Chicago, Potter, Ainsworth, & Co. · leaf 254
varies within much widerlimits than that of Mercury. When Venus is at inferiorconjunction, her distance from the earth is ninety-twomilhon miles minus sixty-seven million miles, or twenty-five miUion miles; and when at superior conjunction it isninety-two million miles plus sixty-seven million… … Fig. 258. variation in the distance of Venus from the earth, herapparent diameter varies from about ten seconds to aboutsixty-six seconds. Fig. 258 shows the apparent size ofVenus at her extreme and mean distances from the earth. • 228. Volume and Density of Venus. — The real size ofVenus is about…
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