 | Sir John Frederick William Herschel - 1833 - 444 pages
...offer remarkable and, indeed, quite unexpected and unexampled peculiarities. Contrary to the unbroken analogy of the whole planetary system — whether...retrograde; that is to say, their positions, when projected on the ecliptic, instead of advancing from west to east round the center of their primary, as is the... | |
 | sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - 500 pages
...offer remarkable and, indeed, quite unexpected and unexampled peculiarities. Contrary to the unbroken analogy of the whole planetary system — whether...retrograde; that is to say, their positions, when projected on the ecliptic, instead of advancing from west to east round the center of their primary, as is the... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1838 - 564 pages
...of primaries or secondaries — the planes of their orbits are nearly perpendicular to the ecliptie, being inclined no less than 78° 58' to that plane,...retrograde; that is to say, their positions, when projected on the ecliptie, instead of advancing from vest to east, round the centre of their primary, as is the... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - 1839 - 300 pages
...unexpected and unexampled peculiarities. Contrary to the unbroken analogy of the whole planetary system, the planes of their orbits are nearly perpendicular...these orbits their motions are retrograde ; that is, instead of advancing from west to east around their primary, as is the case with all the other planets... | |
 | John Hymers - 1840 - 386 pages
...peculiarity that the planes of their orbits are nearly perpendicular to the ecliptic, being inclined at about 78°. 58' to that plane; and in these orbits their motions are from east to west, or retrograde. With the exception of the two interior satellites of Saturn, the... | |
 | John Lee COMSTOCK (and HOBLYN (Richard Dennis)), John Lee COMSTOCK - 1846 - 506 pages
...unexampled peculiarities. Contrary to the unbroken analogy of the whole planetary system,—whether of primaries or secondaries— the planes of their...retrograde; that is to say, their positions, when projected on the ecliptic, instead of advancing from west to fast round the centre of their primary, as is the... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - 1849 - 672 pages
...Contrary to the unbroken analogy of the whole planetary system—whether of primaries or secondaries—the planes of their orbits are nearly perpendicular to...• that is to say, their positions, when projected on the ecliptic, instead of advancingyrom west to east round the centre of their primary, as is the... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - 1851 - 744 pages
...offer remarkable, and, indeed, quite unexpected and unexampled peculiarities. Contrary to the unbroken analogy of the whole planetary system — whether...; that is to say, their positions, when projected on the ecliptic, instead of advancing from west to east round the centre of their primary, as is the... | |
 | 1843 - 582 pages
...planetary system, the planes of their orbits are nearly perpendicular to the plane of the ecliptic ; and in these orbits their motions are retrograde ; that is to say, instead of advancing from west to east, round the centre of their primary, as is the case with every... | |
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Contrary to the unbroken analogy of the whole planetary system — whether of primaries or secondaries — the planes of their orbits are nearly perpendicular to the ecliptic^ being inclined no less than 78° 58' to that plane, and in these orbits their... 
