 On such planets giants might exist, and those enormous animals which on earth require the buoyant power of water to counteract their weight, might there be denizens of the land.  Outlines of Astronomy - Page 281by John Frederick William Herschel - 1869 - 753 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sir John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1833 - 444 pages
...must lie in this condition of their state. A man placed on one of them would spring with ease 60 feet high, and sustain no greater shock in his descent...weight, might there be denizens of the land. But of such speculation there is no end. (449.) We shall close this chapter with an illustration calculated to... | |
 | 1833 - 618 pages
...must lie in this condition of their state. A man placed on one of them would spring with ease 6O feet high, and sustain no greater shock in his descent...weight, might there be denizens of the land. But of such speculation there is no end. " We shall close this chapter with an illustration calculated to convey... | |
 | sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - 500 pages
...must lie in this condition of their state. A man placed on one of them would spring with ease 60 feet high, and sustain no greater shock in his descent...weight, might there be denizens of the land. But of such speculation there is no end. (449.) We shall close this chapter with an illustration calculated to... | |
 | 1834 - 596 pages
...condition of their state. A man placed on one of them would spring with ease 60 feet high, and sustain Bo greater shock in his descent than he does on the earth from leaping i yard. On such planets giants might exist ; and those enormous animals, which on earth require the... | |
 | Thomas Lockerby - 1839 - 566 pages
...no less a bar to any inquiry into them. A man placed on one of them would spring, with ease, 60 feet high, and sustain no greater shock, in his descent, than he does on the earth from leaping a yard. The earth has one moon or satellite, Jupiter four, Saturn seven, Uranus at least two, probably six.... | |
 | 1853 - 588 pages
...quicksilver, where to sink is impossible. ' A man placed on one of them would spring with ease sixty feet high, and sustain no greater shock in his descent...their weight, might there be denizens of the land.' If the fixed stars be suns, of what pondrous adamant must the beings be fashioned which exist on their... | |
 | Astrology - 1841 - 266 pages
...features in their physical qualities. " A man placed on one of these would spring with ease sixty feet high, and sustain no greater shock in his descent...their weight, might there be denizens of the land." The only one of these planets visible to the naked eye is Vesta. She is about the size of a star of... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1842 - 472 pages
...them would spring with ease 60 feet high, and sustain no greater shock in his descent that he docs on the earth from leaping a yard. On such planets...weight, might there be denizens of the land. But of such speculation there is no end. (449.) We shall close this chapte^ with an illustration calculated to... | |
 | 1850 - 600 pages
...quicksilver, where to sink is impossible. " A man placed on one of them would spring with ease sixty feet high, and sustain no greater shock in his descent...counteract their weight, might there be denizens of the land."f If the fixed stars be suns, of what ponderous adamant must the beings be fashioned, which exist... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1850 - 604 pages
...quicksilver, where to sink is impossible. " A man placed on one of them would spring with ease sixty feet high, and sustain no greater shock in his descent...counteract their weight, might there be denizens of the land."f If the fixed stars be suns, of what ponderous adamant must the beings be fashioned, which exist... | |
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