Category: Science - Earth/Agricultural/Farming
By the term “Solar System” it is to be understood that an Astronomer, speaking from the standpoint of an inhabitant of the Earth, wishes to refer to that object, the Sun, which is to him the material and visible centre of life and heat and control, and also to those bodies dep...
There was once a book published, the title of which was “The Sun, Ruler, Fire, Light and Life of the Planetary System.” The title was by no means a bad one, for without doubt th...
13. CHAPTER XIII.I suppose that it is the experience of all those who happen to be in any sense, however humble, specialists in a certain branch of science, that from time to time, they are bese...
5. CHAPTER V.To us, as its inhabitants, the Earth appeals in two characters, and in writing a book on astronomy it is necessary, yet difficult, to keep these two characters separate. The Ear...
10. CHAPTER X.Next beyond Jupiter, proceeding outwards from the Sun, we reach the planet Saturn, which beyond any doubt is the most beautiful and most interesting of all the planets. Nobody w...
6. CHAPTER VI.The Moon being merely the satellite of a planet, to wit, the Earth, it should, according to the plan of this book, be included in the chapter which deals with its primary; but f...
1. CHAPTER I.By the term “Solar System” it is to be understood that an Astronomer, speaking from the standpoint of an inhabitant of the Earth, wishes to refer to that object, the Sun, which...
7. CHAPTER VII.Mars, though considerably smaller than the Earth, is commonly regarded as the planet which, taken all in all, bears most resemblance to the Earth, though only one-fourth its siz...
4. CHAPTER IV.The planet Venus has two things in common with Mercury. One is, that being an inferior planet, that is to say, a planet revolving round the Sun in an orbit within that of the Ea...
12. CHAPTER XII.We now come to the best known planet of the solar system, reckoning outwards from the Sun, and though this planet itself, as an object to look at, has no particular interest for...
9. CHAPTER IX.The planet Jupiter occupies, in one sense, the first position in the planetary world, it being the largest of all the planets. Moreover, with the exception of Venus, it is the b...
11. CHAPTER XI.To the Ancients Saturn was the outermost planet of the System, nothing beyond it being known. Nor indeed was it to be assumed that any more could possibly exist, because Mercury...
8. CHAPTER VIII.In 1772 a German astronomer named Bode, of Berlin, drew attention to certain curious numerical relations subsisting between the distances of the various planets. This “law,” as...
3. CHAPTER III.So far as we know at present, Mercury is the nearest planet to the Sun. The circumstances under which it presents itself to us and a brief general account of its movements have...