The phenomena and order of the solar system (1843)
Nichol, J. P. (John Pringle), 1804-1859 · New York : Dayton & Newman · leaf 47
have long set. Duringthe passing of the spectator from E to E, all the stars be-tween S and S would have appeared to rise successivelyto the highest point of their paths, and then to decline andsink below the horizon ; so that the heavens would haveseemed in that time to make precisely half a… … at once assured Copernicus it was the true one ; and thushis earliest achievement restored these remote and glori-ous bodies to their natural profound repose, and dashedfrom the heavens that grand crystal sphere—the origin ofall subsequent delusions—the sphere which the feeble witsof men had…
Solar system
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