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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1898. Excerpt: ... . OUR SOLAR SYSTEM. What is known as the Solar System is made up of the Sun, of eight planets with their satellites, of several hundred planetoids, and numerous bodies of little density and erratic movements, called comets. These planets are of various sizes, and revolve around the Sun at various distances. They are all, substantially, upon the same plane, though never all upon the same side of the Sun. To illustrate this, let us suppose some figure on the center of a pond of ice. Around this are skaters at various distances, all going the same way, and those nearest the center moving at a slightly higher rate of speed than those farther out. It is readily seen that the ones nearest the figure will go around many times while the outermost ones go once around. And the result of these movements must be that the skaters are scattered about, and to all get in line on the same side would be, practically, a mathematical impossibility. Let us suppose again, that on this ice is a ball six feet in diameter. This may represent the Sun. At two hundred feet away a small currant would represent, substantially, the size of Mercury, and his distance from the Sun. A large gooseberry at four hundred feet away would be Venus; and the Earth, on the same scale, would be a small cherry at a distance from the Sun of eight hundred feet. At more than fifteen hundred feet a small cranberry would fitly represent Mars; while the Asteroids a half mile distant would be but small pin's heads. A small melon would represent Jupiter more than a mile distant. Saturn two miles away would be but a large orange. A small peach more than four miles from the ball would represent Uranus, and a common peach the far-away Neptune, more than eight miles from the central globe. This, in common language, shows the comparative di...
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