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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1854 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV. ANALOGY BETWEEN THE EARTH AND THE OTHER PLANETS. With the information contained in the preceding chapter, respecting the structure of the Earth and its atmosphere, we are now in a condition to compare it as an inhabited world with the other planets of our system, and to ascertain, from the analogies which exist between them, to what extent it is probable that they are either inhabited, or in a state of preparation, as the earth once was, for the reception of inhabitants. In making this comparison, the first point which demands our attention is the position which the earth occupies in the Solar system. In reference to the position of the planets, Jupiter may be regarded as the middle planet, and is otherwise highly distinguished. Our earth, therefore, is neither the middle planet nor the planet nearest the sun, nor the planet farthest from that luminary. In reference to the light and heat which the planets receive from the sun, the Earth has neither the warmest, nor the middle, nor the coldest place. With respect to the number of moons or satellites, the only uses of which that we know, is to give light to the planet, and produce tides in its seas, the Earth has the lowest number, all the planets exterior to it having a larger number. If we compare it with the other planets in reference to their size, their form, their density, the length of their year, the length of their day, the eccentricity of their orbits, we shall find that in all these cases the Earth is not in any respect distinguished above the rest. Hence we are entitled to conclude that the Earth, as a planet, has no pre-eminence in the Solar system to induee us to believe that it is the only inhabited world, or has any claim to be peculiarly favoured by the Creator. In order to shew t...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781150046131
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 64
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150046139
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 132 gr


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