Astronomy and the Bible; or, God's two great books, nature and revelation . Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth nothow that the city of the Ephesians is a worshiper of thegreat goddess, Diana, and of the image which fell down fromJupiter?—Acts 19 s ASTEONOMY AND THE BIBLE. 81 (2). It completes a revolution aroundthe sun in nearly twelve years. (3). Jupiter advances 30 degrees east-ward yearly, and conies into oppositionwith the earth and sun every thirteenmonths. (4). His seven attendant moons give himsome dignity as compared with the planets,heretofore considered. (5). Thou
Astronomy and the Bible; or, God's two great books, nature and revelation . Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth nothow that the city of the Ephesians is a worshiper of thegreat goddess, Diana, and of the image which fell down fromJupiter?—Acts 19 s ASTEONOMY AND THE BIBLE. 81 (2). It completes a revolution aroundthe sun in nearly twelve years. (3). Jupiter advances 30 degrees east-ward yearly, and conies into oppositionwith the earth and sun every thirteenmonths. (4). His seven attendant moons give himsome dignity as compared with the planets,heretofore considered. (5). Though he appears to advanceslowly among the stars, he is traveling atthe rate of eight and a third miles a second,,or 500 miles a minute. (6). The inclination of his orbit to theecliptic is only one degree and nineteenminutes. (7). Turns on his axis in nine hours andfifty-five minutes. 3. Dimensions and Mass, (1). His diameter is nearly 90,000 miles, (2). It would take nearly 1,400 earths tomake a Jupiter so far as volume is concern-ed, and he is larger than all the other plan-ets combined. (3). If he were as close to us as themoon, he would fill a space more than 1,500times the apparent area of the moons disk. (4). It would take over 1,000 Jupiters tosequal t
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