| Cosmic View: The Universe in 40 Jumps by Kees Boeke (1957) |
page 18 |
|
| TOP Flaps 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 |
| Powers of ten: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 <> 1 0 -1 -2 -3 -4 -5 -6 -7 -8 -9 -10 -11 -12 -13 |
 
| |||
| 13. |
The sun (2) has now come into the picture. It is 1.5 centimeters away from the
earth (1). The size of the earth has shrunk to 1.3 micron and even the sun's
size should be only 140 microns. The dots denoting them are therefore much
too big, for a micron is only a thousandth of a millimeter! Inside the earth's orbit
we see the planets Mercury (3) and Venus (4). Outside it are Mars (5) and Jupiter
(6) with their orbits. The positions of the planets (just as that of the moon
in #10) in this and following drawings are those which they occupied when
we undertook our miraculous and timeless journey through space. We will now
state more precisely when this was: It was December 21st of the year 1951.
In addition to the sun and the planets we see part of the orbit of Halley's comet
(7), which comes into our "neighborhood" once every 77 years.
| ||
|
This content is from Kees Boeke's book, Cosmic View: The Universe
in 40 Jumps. It has been placed online without permission. Copyright (C) 1957 by Kees Boeke. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted, or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photo-copying and recording, or in any information storage and retrieval system, without permission. |