Planets

Examples

• From the cooling and cont racting masses that were to constitute the planets smaller zones and rings were formed. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• They were familiar; many of them commonplaces--sun, moon, planets, weight, distance, mass, square of numbers. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• What happy combination of the planets presided over her birth, I wonder? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• About it at great distances circle not only our earth, but certain kindred bodies called the planets. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Our earth is one of these planets. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Night was come, and her planets were risen: a safe, still night: too serene for the companionship of fear. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The relative thickness of the rims is perhaps designed to express the relative distances of the planets. Plato. The Republic.
• The curates, herding together after their manner, made a constellation of three lesser planets. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The most enduring of all--steady unaltering eyes like Planets--signified wood, such as hazel-branches, thorn-faggots, and stout billets. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• That is only one example out of thousands that to me prove beyond the possibility of a doubt that some vast Intelligence is governing this and other planets. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• At Cairo about the close of the tenth century the first accurate records of eclipses were made, and tables were constructed of the motions of the sun, moon, and planets. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• It was thus that the hypothesis that the planets move in circular orbits, recommended by its simplicity and ?sthetic quality, was forced to give way to the hyp othesis of elliptical orbits. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Dr. John himself was one of those on whose birth benign planets have certainly smiled. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• It is slowly distorted by the attractions of the other planets, for ages it may be nearly circular, for ages it is more or less elliptical. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Neptune's orbit is more nearly circular than that of any of the major planets except Venus. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Stars and planets may suffer eclipse, but the principal eclipses are those of the sun and the moon. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• L ater Copernicus spent nine years in Italy, studying at the universities and acquainting himself wit h Ptolemaic and other ancient views concerning the motions of the planets. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The comets are to be regarded as parts of the system, akin to the planets, but more remote from the control of the centripetal forc e of the sun. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The planets, seen t o shift their positions with reference to the other heavenly bodies, were called messengers, or angels. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.

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