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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 108 THE PLANET MARS. twenty minutes and twenty and a half seconds. The earth moves in an elliptical orbit, whose eccentricity, or distance of its foci from the centre, is 1,618,000 miles: that is, the ellipse or oval in which it moves is double the eccentricity, or 3,236,000 miles longer in one direction than it is in another, which is the reason that the sun is farther from us at one season of the year than at another. This is ascertained from the variation of the apparent diameter of the sun. About the 1st of January, when he is nearest the earth, the apparent diameter is thirty-two minutes, thirty-five seconds; and on the 1st of July, when he is most distant, it is only thirty-one minutes, thirty-one seconds. This proves that the earth has a slower motion in one part of its orbit than in another. In January it moves at the rate of about 69,600 miles an hour, but in July its rate of motion every hour is only about 66,400 miles; a difference of more than 3000 miles an hour. IV. OF THE PLANET MARS. The earth is placed, in the solar system, in a position between the orbits of Venus and Mars. The two planets, Mercury and Venus, which are placed within the orbit of the earth, and whose orbits lie between it and the sun, are termed the inferior planets. Those whose orbits lie beyond the orbit of the earth, at a greater distance from the sun, as Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus, are termed superior planets. The motions and aspects of all the superior planets, as seen from the earth, differ considerably from those which are exhibited by the inferior. In the first place, the inferior planets are never seen but in the neighborhood of the sun, none of them ever appearing beyond forty-eight degrees from that luminary; whereas the superior planets appear at all distances from the...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217456494
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 146
  • Spine Width: 8 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217456499
  • Publisher Date: 06 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 272 gr


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