Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-11-12

variation only ........."...o4S miles
Therefore The Average distance Of the four planets is
hundred times The diameter ofhe
In the column of the periods Of the group there needs
an explanation In line 9th of the table there added
1882 daysbeing l365th part of the preceding periods
because these periods in solar time which the add
ton changes to sidereal time The sum (3s2 days. is
placed opposite the ameters of the planets and in lieu
of their rotation Again. in line 10Th of the table the
SUMS period Of rotation 1922 days. is doubled because
it is added to periods of revolution.
The sum of the periods - 144S.6827
14.486s7s x 100 = 144s.6S76.
The sum Of The periods Of this group Is one hundred times
the number Of The sun's rotations year. The variation
in this result of computation is only 5loOoths Of day
We will proceed to find the average period Q. the
spheres Of this group beng one quarter OF the agge
gated periods The Of the periods of the group is
144S6s26 days. To this add 14.486S = 1853 ld95
This divided by gives quoent of 365. 70 days-wthn
FlOOhs of day Of the sderea year of our earth one
half of 382 rotation of the planets) - 1.9l; l9l :
AZ The ears year. therefore, is the aperagepsr Of tie
planets Of this group.
We shall be asked on what grounds we place the value
of the earhs lunar pcycle 4S days which some
what than the value at which it is usually placed
We reply that have abundant reason for the belief
that the earths monthly epcycle is as it an echo
to the rotation Of the sun, and exactly equal to IA AZ ro
tatons which 25h of the days of the earth in year,
the earths rotation is 125th Of the SUMS period Of
rotation.
The mean distance of the earth plus the distance
of the from the earth is 109.S697 Of the suns d.
ameter Thss l0o the average distance of the spheres
Of the group and aS69 the square Of the ratio between
diameter and circumference This win give the rationale
of presented formula for obtaining the period of the
SUMS rotation for The square root of 100 + 100 9s697
the rotations of the earth.
The works Of Cad as displayed in the solar system,
though infinitely vast simple and Ineligible We
do not say that any the extent of Crea
tive WISDOM but we do affirm that all that be
known is most readily known by educated and ntelli
gent man, though he may not be expert geometer
system of physical astronomy, which requires life of
study, and which a few only comprehend, is
false on its very face.
The distance of the full from the sun is 1905 697
of the SUMS diameter is 109 1907 of the moons di
the of her distance from the earth and
is 109SG97 Of the ears diameter the of the
diameter Of the To repeat the idea, with tho use
Of round numbers If imagine chain, each ring of
which would encircle the sum- hundred and ten of
these links would reach from the to the earth the
first ring ecircng the sun, the last ring passing around
the orbit of the moon; chain of hundred and
earth and moon; chain of hundred and rings
earth-arge would engrdle the
The Ptolemaic system gave undue pre-eminence to
the EARTH making it the centre round which the sum-
moon, and stars reyoved in their daily But the
astronomy of the present day, in the oscillation of the
human mind has swaycd back to the Opposite the
present system degrading globe to ordinary planet
undistnguished either in SIZE period, position.
Our globe rightly claims pre-eminence in its own
group 1t is the only of its family which has
tendant satellite 1t is distinguished in its position. 1t
revoves in its orbit in the average period of its assoca
ted worlds Its distance from the the earth reechoes
back for its diameter the diameter of the sum-
the diameter the distance between the
earth and And the MOON in the relation of diameter
distance from the EARTH adds her voice to swell this
harmony Of the I" music Of the spheres"
s. E. CoUES.
WASHINGTON, NovEMBEn Z, 1858.