TUTOR. You now seem perfect in the rule; I shall therefore not trouble you with any more examples, but shall give you the table I promised you. ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ TABLE. │ ├──────────┬──────────┬───────────────┬───────────────┬───────────────┤ │ Names │Diameters,│ Magnitude, │ Periods, │ Mean Distance │ │ of the │in English│ compared │ in │ from the Sun, │ │ PLANETS. │ Miles. │with the Earth.│Years and Days.│ in Mil. of │ │ │ │ │ │ Miles. │ ├──────────┼──────────┼───────────────┼───────────────┼───────────────┤ │Sun │ [A]893522│ 1435952 │ —— │ —— │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │Mercury │ 3261│ 1/14 │ 0 —— 88 │ 36 │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │Venus │ 7699│ 5/49 │ 0 —— 224 │ 68 │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │Earth │ 7920│ 1 │ 1 or 365 │ 95 │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │Moon │ 2161│ 1/49 │ —— │ —— │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │Mars │ 5312│ 1/3 │ 1 and 322 │ 145 │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │Jupiter │ 90255│ 1479 │ 11 —— 314 │ 494 │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │Saturn │ 80012│ 1031 │ 29 —— 167 │ 906 │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │Georgian │ 34217│ 82 │ 83 —— 121 │ 1812 │ └──────────┴──────────┴───────────────┴───────────────┴───────────────┘ [Footnote A: The Diameters were taken from Adams’s Lectures, Vol. IV. p. 39.] PUPIL. I shall take the first opportunity of calculating the rest, in which I am certain I shall have great satisfaction. * * * * * TUTOR. I have now conducted you through the elementary parts of astronomy, have given you a general view of the system of the world, and prepared you to pursue the study with profit and pleasure.—In your future researches, the more accurate you are, the more you will discover of regularity, symmetry, and order in the constitution of the frame of nature.