Note 9 — DIALOGUE II.
Reading edition
The distance of Syrius is 18,717,442,690,526 miles. A cannon-ball going at the rate of 1143 miles an hour, would only reach the sun in about 1,868,307 years, 88 days.
Adams’s Lectures, vol. 4. page 44.
Reading edition
The distance of Syrius is 18,717,442,690,526 miles. A cannon-ball going at the rate of 1143 miles an hour, would only reach the sun in about 1,868,307 years, 88 days.
Adams’s Lectures, vol. 4. page 44.