The Ways of the Planets

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CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

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

IV THE ORIGIN OF THE PLANETS

V THE SEVEN GREAT PLANETS

VI THE MOVEMENTS OF THE PLANETS

VII HOW THE INFERIOR PLANETS SEEM TO MOVE

VIII HOW THE SUPERIOR PLANETS SEEM TO MOVE

IX THE PATH OF THE PLANETS

X MERCURY

XI VENUS

XII MARS

XIII JUPITER

XIV SATURN

XV URANUS

XVI NEPTUNE

XVII THE LITTLE PLANETS, OR THE ASTEROIDS

XVIII CONCLUSION

SYMBOLS USED IN ALMANACS

INDEX

Transcriber’s notes:

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:
comparsion → comparison
dining → during
clamly → calmly
atronomer → astronomer
oi → of
the → (deleted)
a → (deleted)

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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
THE PLANETS

BY
MARTHA EVANS MARTIN, A.M.
AUTHOR OF
“THE FRIENDLY STARS”
NEW YORK AND LONDON
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
MCMXII
COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY HARPER & BROTHERS
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
PUBLISHED OCTOBER, 1912

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