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Title: Bible astronomy; or, The little book on the mysteries and wonder of the rise and fall of Babylon
Year: 1853 (1850s)
Authors: Melcher, Josiah F. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Bible Astronomy Astronomy in the Bible
Publisher: St. Louis, Mo., Printed at the St. Louis intelligencer buildings
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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BIHLB ASTUOKO M S . 29 angle of about sixty degrees, thereby receiving as much lightinside as Venus, although further from the Sun. The Earthis formed like Venus in respect to the inner worlds and theirdiameters; the motions of dKfe part corresponding with theother in conjunction to the Moon instead of the Sun, like Ve-nus* The diameter of the Earth in its primitive state wouldfall below 4,000 miles, the same as Venus, they being formedand fashioned at the same time. And it would follow that theinner worlds were composed of, or in a great measure, of theheavier materials, such as gold, silver, iron and lead, and otherweighty matter, the lightest being all outside on the outer di-vision. Note.—Fig. 13—Form of the Pla.net Mars as compared withthe Earth.—Mars is the fourth planet from the Sua, and it is of thefirst class with Mercury, formed and fashioned on the same plan, only of alighter form, and in the piimitive state Mars would fall to 1,800 miles Indiameter; like Mercury, rev

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