The wonders of the heavens, being a popular view of astronomy, including a full illustration of the mechanism of the heavens; embracing the sun, moon, and stars, with descriptions of the planets, comets, fixed stars, double stars, the constellations, the galaxy, or milky-way, the zodiacal light, aurora borealis, or norhtern lights, meteors, clouds, falling stars, aërolites, &c (1837)
Bradford, Duncan. [from old catalog] · Boston, American stationers company · leaf 96
ily circuit round our globe would measure morethan 125,000,000,000,000, miles. This sum divid-ed by 86,400, the number of seconds in a day, would WONDERS OF THE HEAVENS 61 give 1,454,861,111, or somewhat more than onethousand fom hundred millions of miles, for its rateof motion in a second of time… … Let the small circle. A, in the centre, representthe earth, and the circle B C D E the orbit of thesun, on the supposition that he moves round theearth every twenty-four hours. The line A B willrepresent the distance of the sun from the earth,or ninety-five millions of miles ; the line B D…
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