An introduction to astronomy : designed as a text book for the students of Yale College (1846)
Olmsted, Denison, 1791-1859, Yale College (1718-1887) · New York : Collins, Brother & Co. · leaf 215
whole diameter of the earths orbit, that is, by about190,000,000 of miles. When Mars is on the same side of the sunwith the earth, or at his opposition, he comes within 47,000,000miles of the earth, and rising about the time the sun sets surprisesus by his magnitude and splendor; but when he passes… … M in the superior conjunction. It is obvious that in the former situa-tion, the planet must be nearer to the earth than in the latter bythe whole diameter of the earths orbit. JUPITER. 191 323. Mars is the only one of the superior planets which exhibitsphases. When he is towards the quadratures at…
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