If the pampered ladies of the Inner Planets only knew where their thousand-dollar orchids sprang from!
The dome is the 'eye' of a complicated apparatus which enables us to see and hear any desired happening on the surface of the earth, beneath its surface, or on the many inhabited planets of the heavens.
The larger one’s acquaintance is with the appearance of the skies as a whole, the easier, naturally, it will be to distinguish the planets from the stars, and to follow their courses.
In the other part of the constellation the path of the planets runs about ten degrees below the triangle.
The planets in passing through this region often come very close to the Pleiades, and parts of the group are sometimes occulted by the moon.
In this apparent motion the planets share as well as the sun, moon, and stars.
The swiftest moving of the planets does not achieve much more than twenty-nine miles a second, while the slowest swings along at a rate of but little more than three miles in the same length of time.
It is the center around which we and all the planets revolve, and it is believed that we were all once a part of the very body of it.
We can see but little of the inferior planets at that time, anyway, though it is important for us to know where they are, in order to keep track of them and to be ready for them when they are to be seen.
The mere knowing of these constellations is in most cases sufficient, since the planets will disclose their identity in other ways than by position merely.
There are also certain minor real movements arising from various causes, one being the influence that the planets exercise on one another; but for the ordinary observer these have no particular significance.
XI VENUS Of all the planets lovely Venus is the one that is best known and most admired.
The superior planets are Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
Descartes has imagined the earth and planets were only small incrusted suns; in other words, suns entirely extinguished.
Does analogy permit us to doubt that the other planets do not likewise contain a quantity of heat, which belongs to them alone, and which must render them capable of receiving and supporting living nature?
To the question, how can animated nature, which you suppose every where established, exist in planets of iron, emery, or pumice stone?
There are planets whose different parts successively enjoy a borrowed light, and there are comets which, after being lost in the immensity of space for several ages, return to receive the influence of the solar heat.
It is more especially demonstrated by the earth, the moon, and the other planets continuing their motion for ever in the absence of any friction or resistance to oppose their onward progress.
And whether any of the other Planets will be more favourable in this point, I cannot say.
To proportion the distance necessary to burn Bodies by the Sun; and shewing, why the Reflections from the Moon and other Planets do not burn, 4.
Axis: And accordingly, that the Secondary Planets about Jupiter and Saturn, are not (like their Principals) turned about their own Axis.
From all which Observations he Judges it to be evident, that the Period of this Planets Revolution is not perform'd in the space of 12.
Without a more accurate knowledge of the masses of the planets than was then possessed a satisfactory solution was impossible; but the upper limits assigned by him agreed closely with those obtained later by U.
Beneath his footsteps the Volcanoes rise; His shadow is the Pestilence: his path 10 The comets herald through the crackling skies;[bb] And Planets turn to ashes at his wrath.
The mind can make Substance, and people planets of its own 20 With beings brighter than have been, and give A breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.
Conjunction or Conjunct [Symbol: Conjunct], is seen when two planets are within three degrees of each other's position in the same sign.
So with other numbers of degree of the places of the planets when within 3 degrees of the same positions in aspected signs.
And she said the same when he one day informed her that the planets could be weighed and their distance from the earth and the sun measured.
Coming homeward from the distant heavens, the advances of astronomy diminish as we near what may be called the old planets and our pale companion the moon.
The family circle of planets proper has been immensely increased, a new visitant to the central fire appearing every few years or even months.
What else he may see in those other planets which revolve around him we cannot tell, at least until we have tried the fifty-foot telescope which Lord Rosse is preparing for that purpose.
No attempt to carefully examine the plates taken for intra-mercurial planets has yet been possible.
Less imposing, and perhaps more ungainly was the combination of four great cameras under the main shed, designed to search for new planets and to depict the outer corona.
The principal bodies of this system are the sun and eight great planets with their moons, revolving round it.
And then you talk of the distance which separates the planets from the sun!
Well, the projectile is the vehicle of the future, and the planets themselves are nothing else!
Indeed this was all they saw of the globe lost in the shadow, an inferior orb of the solar world, rising and setting to the great planets like a simple morning or evening star!
Barbicane, therefore, hastened to get in a word, and began by asking his new friend whether he thought that the moon and the planets were inhabited.
Similarly he would have observed these planets throw off one or more rings each, which became the origin of the secondary bodies which we call satellites.
To those who maintain that theplanets are not inhabited one may reply:--You might be perfectly in the right, if you could only show that the earth is the best possible world, spite of what Voltaire has said.
By the absence of refraction in the rays of the planets occulted by her we conclude that she is absolutely devoid of an atmosphere.
Each of these planets is slightly smaller than Earth, so that the decrease in gravity is just great enough to be pleasant, without being so marked as to be inconvenient.
The word conquer is hardly correct," the commander said stiffly, "since not one of the three planets had any indigenous life forms that was intelligent.
Further, it seems more probable that the invaders have come from one of the nearby planets than from the realms of space beyond the solar system.
Because they are the two planets nearest to the earth and are the ones where conditions are the most like they are on the earth.
The naming of the days of the week after the seven Planets was noted by Dion Cassius as originally an Egyptian custom, which spread from Egypt into the Roman Empire.
The nearest beacon to the broken-down Proxima Centauri Beacon was on one of the planets of Beta Circinus and I headed there first, a short trip of only about nine days in hyperspace.
They are built on planets and generate tremendous amounts of power.
Tell an ordinary Englishman, it has been wittily said, that it is a question whether the planets are inhabited, and he feels bound at once to have a confident opinion on the point.
Certain planets are above the horizon at certain periods of the year and below the horizon at certain other periods.
We perceive a certain number of coincidences between the ascendancy of certain planets and the birth of distinguished individuals without suspecting that planetary influence was concerned in their superiority.
This was an attempt to explain the solar system on the hypothesis that cosmic space is filled with a fluid in which the planets are carried round as chips of wood in a whirlpool, or leaves or dust in a whirlwind.
From all this similitude it is not unreasonable to think that these planets may, like our earth, be the habitation of various orders of living creatures.
As before remarked, all the planets revolve in elliptical orbits round the Sun, and the time consumed in their journey constitutes their year.
Now what the Sun is to this earth and its inhabitants, so also we believe it to be to the inhabitants of all the other planets belonging to its system; all of which worlds it controls, even as it does this.
What is the mighty power which maintains such order in the Heavens, which steadies the planets in their orbits, and traces out for them a route so wisely planned as to avoid all chances of collision?
He held that the Sun was the centre of the solar system, around which all the planets revolve, and that the stars are so many suns, each the centre of a system like our own.
There is no doubt that most of those stars are Suns, dispensing light and heat to earths and planets like our own; and, indeed, no bodies shining by reflected light would be visible at such enormous distances.
In the first place, it is true that the "loadstone power of attraction" is there: but it is within what all denominate the SUN, and by this the surrounding planets are controlled.
The Sun was placed in the centre, and became the pivot of the whole system, tying to itself the different planets by the cord of its superior attraction.
Anaximander, in the school of Miletus, taught the sublime doctrine that the planets are inhabited, and that the stars are suns of other systems.
Indeed; there was a time, then, when only sevenplanets could have existed!
Yet the movements of the planets were marked by peculiarities which compelled him once more to modify slightly his customary mode of thought.
Newton, now, firmly grasping this new way of thinking, sees the moon and the planets moving in their paths upon principles similar to those which determine the motion of a projectile thrown into the air.
