 | sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - 500 pages
...positions, when projected on the ecliptic, instead of advancing from west to east round the center of their primary, as is the case with every other...planet and satellite, move in the opposite direction. Their orbits are nearly or quite circular, and they do not appear to have any sensible, or, at least,... | |
 | Sir John Frederick William Herschel - 1833 - 444 pages
...positions, when projected on the ecliptic, instead of advancing from west to east round the center of their primary, as is the case with every other...planet and satellite, move in the opposite direction. Their orbits are nearly or quite circular, and they do not appear to have any sensible, or, at least,... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1838 - 564 pages
...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...planet and satellite, move in the opposite direction.' For these peculiarities no satisfactory cause has been assigned ; and they leave us no less strikingly... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1838 - 566 pages
...is to say, their positions, when projected on the ecliptic, instead of advancing^/roOT west to cast, round the centre of their primary, as is the case...planet and satellite, move in the opposite direction.' For these peculiarities no satisfactory cause has been assigned ; and they leave us no less strikingly... | |
 | John Lee COMSTOCK (and HOBLYN (Richard Dennis)), John Lee COMSTOCK - 1846 - 506 pages
...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 case...planet and satellite, move in the opposite direction. Their orbits are nearly or quite circular, and they do not appear to have any sensible, or, at least,... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - 1849 - 672 pages
...retrograde • that is to say, their positions, when projected on the ecliptic, instead of advancingyrom west to east round the centre of their primary, as...planet and satellite, move in the opposite direction. Their orbits are nearly or quite circular, and they do not appear to have any sensible, or, at least,... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - 1851 - 744 pages
...and in these orbits their motions are retrograde ; that is to say, their positions, when projected on the ecliptic, instead of advancing from west to east...planet and satellite, move in the opposite direction. Their orbits are nearly or quite circular, and they do not appear to have any sensible, or, at least,... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - 1851 - 706 pages
...positions, when projected on the ecliptic, instead of advancing from west to east round the center of their primary, as is the case with every other...planet and satellite, move in the opposite direction. Their orbits are nearly or quite circular, and they do not appear to have any sensible, or, at least,... | |
 | 1843 - 582 pages
...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...is the case with every other planet and satellite, they move from east to west. We know of no planet beyond this. Uranus is also called the Georgium Sidus... | |
 | William Williams - 1855 - 396 pages
...in another way, " their motions are retrograde ; 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 ^e case with every other planet and satellite, move in an SOLAR MAGNETISM. 193 opposite direction."... | |
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... 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 motions are retrograde ; that is to say, their positions, when projected on the ecliptic,... 
