Harris, John · Montreal, Lovell Printing and Publishing Co. · leaf 145
atellite to be con-siderably less than this, it would still be a quantity oftime which the practical astronomer can readily verify.This, then, is one of the distinct requisitions of Roemersassumption which can be directly submitted to the deci-sion of experience. * If the earth receded (and… … TELOCITY-OF-LIGHT THEORY. 43 Let US now consider what effects would be necessarilyconsequent upon some very small quantity of time beingoccupied by light, in its communication from the sun toJupiter, and from Jupiter to the earth. The quantityof time attributed by the theory (of the velocity of…
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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-300-196.webp)
