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... diameter of Saturn is twenty seconds , or one third of a minute the greatest diameter of Venus is fifty - eight seconds , or nearly a minute ; but as Saturn is much fur- ther from us than Venus , his real diameter is 79,000 miles ...
... diameter of Saturn is twenty seconds , or one third of a minute the greatest diameter of Venus is fifty - eight seconds , or nearly a minute ; but as Saturn is much fur- ther from us than Venus , his real diameter is 79,000 miles ...
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... Diameter of the Sun as seen from Mercury . Fig . 8 . Diameter of from the Earth . the Sun as seen While the intensity of the solar light on this planet is about seven times greater than on the earth , the light on the surface of Ura ...
... Diameter of the Sun as seen from Mercury . Fig . 8 . Diameter of from the Earth . the Sun as seen While the intensity of the solar light on this planet is about seven times greater than on the earth , the light on the surface of Ura ...
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... diameter . Jupiter , Mars , and Saturn have also been ascertained to be oblate sphe roids , and the proportion between their equa torial and polar diameters has been pretty accurately determined . As Venus is found to have a rotation ...
... diameter . Jupiter , Mars , and Saturn have also been ascertained to be oblate sphe roids , and the proportion between their equa torial and polar diameters has been pretty accurately determined . As Venus is found to have a rotation ...
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... diameter , eastward , a luminous appearance , of a shape not well defined , that seemed to have the same phase with Venus , which was then gibbous on the western side . The diameter of this phenome- non was nearly equal to a fourth part ...
... diameter , eastward , a luminous appearance , of a shape not well defined , that seemed to have the same phase with Venus , which was then gibbous on the western side . The diameter of this phenome- non was nearly equal to a fourth part ...
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... diameter were constructed to exhibit the true figure of the earth , no eye could distin- guish the difference between such a spheroid and a perfect globe , since the difference of its two diameters would scarcely exceed one third of an ...
... diameter were constructed to exhibit the true figure of the earth , no eye could distin- guish the difference between such a spheroid and a perfect globe , since the difference of its two diameters would scarcely exceed one third of an ...
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