Notes to accompany mr. Wyld's model of the Earth, Leicester square [by himself].Model of the Earth, 1851 - 132 pagina's Published as a souvenir for vistors to Wyld's Great Globe contains an introductory section on the earth and its place in the solar system followed by entries on the world's regions. Includes a section on Antarctica and Australia. |
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Africa Arctic Ocean Armenia Asia Asia Minor Atlantic Australia Black Sea bounded breadth California called Canada East Cape Caspian Caspian Sea centre chain chief chiefly China Circassia climate coal coast continent copper cotton Danube distance district Ditto divided earth east eastern empire England English Europe exports extending feet fertile France French globe gold Gulf Gulf of Mexico hemisphere Hindoostan Hollanders Indian iron islands Isles Isthmus lakes land maize Mediterranean Mexico mineral mines mountains navigable nearly North America North Sea north-east northern occupied Ocean Pacific peninsula Persia plains pole Popular Atlas population portion ports principal produce provinces race region rivers route Russia seat settlements ships shore Siberia soil south-east south-west southern Spain Spring roller square miles steam Straits surface Syria table-land Tartary territory town trade valleys vast volcanoes Wales western wide Wurtemburg Wyld's
Populaire passages
Pagina 6 - Venus a pea, on a circle of 284 feet in diameter ; the Earth also a pea, on a circle of 430 feet ; Mars a rather large pin's head, on a circle of 654 feet...
Pagina 6 - ... 430 feet; Mars a rather large pin's head, on a circle of 654 feet; Juno, Ceres, Vesta, and Pallas, grains of sand, in orbits of from 1000 to 1200 feet; Jupiter a moderate-sized orange, in a circle nearly half a mile across; Saturn a small orange, on a circle of four-fifths of a mile...
Pagina 9 - ... in the same manner as a body's motion on the earth would be slower and quicker according to its distance from the point it was drawn towards, provided it was drawn by a force acting in the proportion to the squares of the distance, which we have frequently mentioned ; and the proportion of the time to the distance is also observed to agree with the rule above referred to.
Pagina 6 - Jupiter a moderate-sized orange, in a circle nearly half a mile across ; Saturn a small orange, on a circle of four-fifths of a mile ; and Uranus a full-sized cherry, or small plum, upon the circumference of a circle more than a mile and a half in diameter. As to getting correct notions on this subject by drawing circles on paper, or, still worse, from those very childish toys called orreries, it is out of the question.
Pagina 4 - ... other, being examined from this point of view, form, as it were, one whole, the structure of which, as far as it is known, exhibits in its grand features a most amazing symmetry. A chain of enormous mountains surrounds a vast basin : this basin, divided into two by a large mass of islands, frequently washes with its waves the base of this great primitive chain of the earth. But when did this immense chain of granite and porphyry shoot up from the bosom of the waters ? Or when did those lofty...
Pagina 77 - between different portions of the flora and fauna of the country from the Atlantic to the Rocky Mountains and from the Gulf of Mexico to the Arctic Sea.
Pagina 10 - Newton calculated its heat at 2000 times that of red-hot iron ; and that it would take thousands of years to cool. But the distance of the Fixed Stars is yet more vast : they have been supposed to be 400,000 times further from us than we are from the Sun, that is 38 millions...
Pagina 6 - Mercury must describe his own diameter in forty-one seconds ; Venus in four minutes and fourteen seconds ; the Earth in seven minutes ; Mars in four minutes forty-eight seconds ; Jupiter in two hours fifty-six minutes ; Saturn in three hours thirteen minutes ; and Uranus in two hours sixteen minutes.
Pagina 6 - On it place a globe, two feet in diameter; this will represent the Sun; Mercury will be represented by a grain of mustard seed, on the circumference of a circle 164 feet in diameter for its orbit; Venus a pea, on a circle...
Pagina 9 - ... referred to. Therefore, she is shown to be attracted towards the earth by a force that varies according to the same proportion in which gravity varies ; and she must consequently move in an ellipse round the earth, which is placed in a point nearer the one end than the other of that curve. In like manner, it is shown that the earth moves round the sun in the same curve...