The Solar System: Six Lectures Delivered at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in December, 1902 (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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9781440051173: The Solar System: Six Lectures Delivered at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in December, 1902 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Solar System: Six Lectures Delivered at the Massachusetts, Institute of Technology, in December, 1902

IN the long perspective of knowledge, which begins with the close at hand and stretches to the infinitely remote, the solar system marks a middle distance. Between the intimacy possible with objects on this Earth and the distant recognition of the universe of suns, it furnishes an acquaint anceship combining something of the interest of the one with the grandeur of the other.

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IN the long perspective of knowledge, which begins with the close at hand and stretches to the infinitely remote, the solar system marks a middle distance. Between the intimacy possible with objects on this Earth and the distant recognition of the universe of suns, it furnishes an acquaintanceship combining something of the interest of the one with the grandeur of the other. Our knowledge about the solar system has greatly increased during the last quarter of a century; and first in the recognition of what makes part of it. To our solar system we now know belongs every heavenly body we see except the fixed stars and the nebulze. Not only are the Sun, Moon, and planets members of it, but meteors, shooting-stars, and comets we have found to be so, too. That all of these bodies are part and parc~l of what the Sun controls, I shall first Its position in space and ill knowledge. Its constituents.

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CONTENTS; CHAr; 1 OUR SOLAR SYSTE:l; II MERCURY; III MARS; IV SATUR~ AXD ITS SYSTE:[; V JUPITER AND HIS CO~IETS; VI COS~IOGOXY ; PAGE; 27; 47; 94; II6; ELElIE~TS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM; TABLE; 1 ORI3ITAL ELDlEXTS; II BODILY ELE~lEXTS ; ERRATA; Page 23, line 8; For III; a-""d 2; Page i-t, line 18; read; For Pierce read Feirce; 2JJl; (a - d)z'; Page 104, second line under diagram; For P read O; Page 123, line I; facing 134; Jacillg 134; After momentum insert projected at right angles; to

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