Giberne, Agnes, 1845- [from old catalog] · Cincinnati, National book company · leaf 160
is alsovery great—so great that we can hardly picture it toourselves. If life exists there at all—supposing it YET MORE ABOUT THE SUN. 155 possible that any kind of life can be in such a fieryatmosphere—it must be life very different from anyknown in this world. A man who on earth weighsone hundred… … COMPARATIVE SIZE OF THE EARTH AND SUN. inch and allowed to fall, would dash against theground with a speed three times greater than that ofour fastest express-trains. For weight on earth ismerely caused by the amount of force with which theearth draws downward a body towards herself—aforce greater…
Astronomy
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