Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A System of Astronomy, on the Principles of Copernicus: Containing, Besides the Usual Astronomical Calculations, a Catalogue of Eclipses, Visible in the United States During the Present Century
To a spectator at the sun the planets would appear to move in harmonious order from west to east; he would probably take the period of Mercury as a standard for comparing the periods of planets; the paths ofthe planets would seem to cross each other.
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