Elementary astronomy; a beginner's text-book (1899)
Holden, Edward Singleton, 1846-1914 · New York, H. Holt and company · leaf 205
njunction with theSun when both planet and Sun are in the same directionas seen from the Earth. It is in inferior conjunction whenit is between the Sun and Earth; in superior conjunctionwhen the Sun is between the Earth and the planet. Asuperior planet is said to be in opposition to the Sun when… … Fig. 121.—The Orbits of Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars,and Jupiter. The distance from the Sun to the Earth is 93,000,000 miles ; from the Sunto Jupiter is 481,000,000 miles ; the other distances are in proportion. the planets revolve abont the Sim. Some of the planetshave satellites or moons that…
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![An illustration from Nicolai Copernici Torinensis De reuolutionibus orbium coelestium, libri VI : Habes in hoc opere iam recens nato, & aedito, studiose lector, motus stellarum, tam fixarum, quàm erraticarum, cum ex ueteribus, tum etiam ex recentibus obseruationibus restitutos: & nouis insuper ac admirabilibus hypothesibus ornatos. Habes etiam tabulas expeditissimas, ex quibus eosdem ad quoduis tempus quàm facillime caculare poteris. Igitur eme, lege, fruere. [Line in Greek] (1543)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-nicolaicopernici00cope-35-14.webp)
