Elements of astronomy: accompanied with numerous illustrations, a colored representation of the solar, stellar, and nebular spectra, and celestial charts of the northern and the southern hemisphere (1875)
Lockyer, Norman, Sir, 1836-1920 · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 84
relative size of Of Neptunes? 149. On what does the apparent size of an ohject depend? Towhich planet does the Sun look largest ? To which, smallest ? What does therelative size of the Suns disk also represent ? 150. Which planet has the great-est diameter? Which, the smallest? How does the Earths… … Fig. 31.—The Kelative Size of the Sun, as seen jfkom the Planets. 78 THE SOLAR SYSTEM. the Sun and planets. The black circle represents the diskof the Sun. The disks of the several planets are repre-sented by the white circles, on the same scale as that ofthe Sun, commencing with Mercury at the…
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