  THE WAYS OF THE PLANETS I ON MAKING ACQUAINTANCE WITH THE PLANETS II OUR RELATION TO THE PLANETS III WHAT THE PLANETS ARE, AND WHAT THEY APPEAR TO BE VI THE MOVEMENTS OF THE PLANETS VII HOW THE INFERIOR PLANETS SEEM TO MOVE VIII HOW THE SUPERIOR PLANETS SEEM TO MOVE XVII THE LITTLE PLANETS, OR THE ASTEROIDS The text of this book has been preserved as in the original, apart from a few obvious misspellings. Corrected misspellings and redundancies include the following: In this digital version a black dotted underline indicates a hyperlink to a page or footnote (hyperlinks are also highlighted when the mouse pointer hovers over them). Page numbers are shown in the right margin and footnotes are at the end. An illustration in Chapter IX contains an HTML link to a high-resolution image but this is not accessible with e-reader devices. The text contains symbols that will not necessarily display correctly with all viewing devices, and one symbol (for the Full Moon) cannot be replicated digitally. It is represented in this text by an open circle. For best viewing, the device’s character encoding should be set to Unicode (UTF-8), and a Unicode font selected such as Arial Unicode MS, DejaVu, Segoe UI Symbol or FreeSerif. A WHIRLING SPIRAL NEBULA, TYPICAL OF THAT FROM WHICH THE SUN AND PLANETS WERE PROBABLY EVOLVED In the process of evolution the dense center becomes the controlling sun and the smaller spots of condensation form the planets. This particular nebula lies just under the end of the handle of the Big Dipper. It was photographed at Mt. Wilson Observatory. THE WAYS OF |
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