The phenomena and order of the solar system (1843)
Nichol, J. P. (John Pringle), 1804-1859 · New York : Dayton & Newman · leaf 95
reconcile this dogma to the facts already known, by theold Ptolemaic method of mounting small circles on the cir-cumference of large ones—using the artifice, however, inits best and purest form. For instance, he conceived thatwhile the Earth moved round the Sun in a circle, theEarth itself was not… … DISCOVERY OF ELLIPTIC PATHS. 75 path thus figured was itself no better than an approxima-tion J for the time had not then come in which the truepath could be eliminated from observation, inasmuch asUraniburg had not yet been built. But the time was nowcome! Those materials were garnered which were…
Solar system
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