This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 Excerpt: ...has in turn been deduced from its apparent size and real distance. Fig. 88 gives an idea of the comparative dimensions of the Earth and the planet which we are about to describe. The diameter of Jupiter is nearly 11 times greater than that of the Earth, being 89,000 miles. Seen at the distance of the Moon, this immense ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 Excerpt: ...has in turn been deduced from its apparent size and real distance. Fig. 88 gives an idea of the comparative dimensions of the Earth and the planet which we are about to describe. The diameter of Jupiter is nearly 11 times greater than that of the Earth, being 89,000 miles. Seen at the distance of the Moon, this immense- globe would appear to us with a diameter 34 J times larger than that of our satellite, and its disk would embrace, on the celestial vault, 1200 times the space that the full moon occupies. The form of the globe of Jupiter is not that of a perfect sphere: it is an ellipsoid, flattened, like the Earth, at the poles of rotation. But whilst the polar compression of the terrestrial spheroid is but about juSth, that of the globe of this immense planet is-ih, so that there is Q between the polar diameter--the smallest, and the equatorial diameter, a difference of 4900 miles, which gives for the flattening of each pole 2450 miles. This elliptical form is very perceptible in the telescope; it is perceived at once, without any measurement. The drawings which accompany our description convey a good idea of this flattened form. If it be true, as physical experiments and geological facts tend to show, that the planets are bodies the primitive state of which was fluid, the elliptical form of their meridians is but a consequence of their rotation. The flattening of a sphere, therefore, gives rise to the idea of its rotation round an axis which passes through its centre. Venus, the Earth, Mars, have movements of rotation--is it the same with Jupiter Y It is, and the velocity of its movement, taken in Fig. 89.--Rotation of Jupiter. Apparent displacement of two spots In 37 minutes 15 seconds. connexion with its small density, explains at once the extent ...
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