A high-school astronomy: in which the descriptive, physical, and practical are combined .. (1853)
Mattison, Hiram, 1811-1868 · New York, F. J. Huntingdon [etc.] · leaf 45
rcury. Divide theformer by the latter, and we have 19 and a fraction as the number of times the bulk ofMercury is contained in the earth. 61. State the diameters of the several planets ? (Why blanks in thetable ? What diameters are given—polar, equatorial, or neither?) 62. Give the magnitude of the… … 2. It may seem almost incredible that what appear only as small stars in tho heavensshould be larger than the mighty globe upon which we dwell. But when we considertheir immense distance, and the effect this must have upon their apparent magnitude,as illustrated at 55, it is evident that the…
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