The lost solar system of the ancients discovered (1856)
Wilson, John, writer in astronomy · London Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts · leaf 509
RED. To construct a Truncated Obelisk. Given the distance of Mercury 37, Venus 68, Earth 95,and Mars 144 millions of miles from the sun, to construct anobelisk, having the latus-rectum common to the two sections,so that not only the axes of the same section may be propor-tional to these distances,… … 64.64 obelisk. Join 144, the distance of Mars, and 192; to thisline draw the other lines from 95, 68, 37, parallel; then as 37,68, 95, 144 are as the planetary distances, so, by similartriangles, will 49*33, 90*66, 126*66, 192, be also as the plane-tary distances. TO CONSTRUCT AN OBELISK. 21…
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