The planet Neptune: an exposition and history / By J.P. Nichol.

  • John Pringle Nichol
Date:
1849
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Credit: The planet Neptune: an exposition and history / By J.P. Nichol. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PART FIRST. PICTURE OF TIIE SOLAR SYSTEM. L The System of the Sun and Planets, as we first descry it, is alike simple and majestic. Resting in one portion of Space, from which his lustre is diffused through the profundities which environ him, our magnificent Luminary ranks in glory, and corresponds in destiny, with the myriads of the fixed Stars. Around this orb, which illumines, cherishes, and upholds them, those smaller worlds—of which our Earth is one— roll, with admirable and unwavering regularity, at divers distances and in stated periods. Nearest of all, as shown in the Frontispiece, is placed the planet Mercury: next in the order of remote- ness, we descry the brilliant Venus: then our