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 ... Illustrated by numerous maps and engravings (1845)
WONDERS OF THE HEAVENS. 159 same view of it as if both ships stood still. But if By considering what has been said of the ships in motion, we hope the reader will be assisted in the body move with a greater velocity than the eye, it will appear to go forward, but with a less understanding the… … greater velocity than it really does. If a body at The apparent diameter of Mars increases in rest be viewed by the eye carried along, the body coming from conjunction to opposition, and dimin- will appear to move with a velocity equal to that ishes in going from opposition to conjunction. of the…
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