Popular lessons in astronomy, on a new plan; (1833)
Grund, Francis J. (Francis Joseph), 1804-1863 · Boston, Carter, Hendee and co. · leaf 14
together with the Sun around whichthey move, form what is called our Solar System. But what will you say, if youare told that each fixed Star in the firmament is a Sun which, like ours, has itsPlanets and satellites and Comets; in short, that each fixed Star is the centre ofa solar system, a… … Less. L] IN ASTRONOMY. RECAPITULATION OF LESSON I. [If the pupil has learned and understood this lesson, it may perhaps be not unreasonable to sup-pose he will like to know something more about the Planets and the Moons in our system. Butthe teacher ought not to allow him to enter upon the second…
Astronomy, Juvenile and popular
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![An illustration from Sidereus nuncius : magna, longeque admirabilia spectacula pandens, suspiciendaque proponens vnicuique, praesertim verò philosophis, atq[ue] astronomis, quae à Galileo Galileo ... perspicilli nuper à se reperti beneficio sunt obseruata in lunae facie, fixis innumeris, lacteo circulo, stellis nebulosis, apprime verò in quatuor planetis circa Iouis stellam disparibus interuallis, atque periodis, celeritate mirabili circumuolutis; quos, nemini in hanc vsque diem cognitos, nouissimè author depraehendit primus; atque Medicea sidera nuncupandos decreuit (1610)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-sidereusnunciusm00gali-24-7.webp)
