Sunday, November the 21st, 2004
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“If we represent the sun by a gourd, twenty inches in diameter, Mercury will seem a bilberry, Venus a white currant, the Earth a black currant, Mars a red currant, the planetoids as fine seed, Jupiter an orange or peach, Saturn a nectarine or greengage, Uranus a red cherry, and Neptune a white cherry. By putting the sun and planets in a row, and drawing a contour of the whole, we obtain the figure of a dirk, a bodkin, or an Indian club.” — John Munro, A Trip To Venus