....htm Planets The planets in the solar system rotate anticlockwise, except Venus, Uranus and Pluto which rotate clockwise. No one knows why. In ... ...otation, though. This may be the outcome of an impact with a large celestial body. Uranus' strange angle of rotation is almost certainly due to suc...

...nia (u-ra ́-ne-ah)...............................................................................................................................363 Uranus (u ́-ra-nus)..................................................................................................................................363 - 17 - Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek and Roman Mythology Venus (vee ́...

...180 −1 1.0000 Jupiter 1.0000 1.0000 0 1.0000 Saturn 1.8334 1.6180 1 0.8825 Uranus 3.6883 3.3028 3 0.8955 Neptune 5.7774 5.1926 5 0.8988 Pluto 7.6398 7... ...142 −2 0.8493 Jupiter 1.0000 1.0000 0 1.0000 Saturn 2.4834 2.4142 2 0.9721 Uranus 7.0827 7.1378 7 1.0077 Neptune 13.8922 14.0711 13 1.0129 Pluto 21.11...

...sc. apo tou chorein ). He, as we are informed by tradition, was begotten of Uranus, rightly so called ( apo tou oran ta ano) from looking upwards; wh... ...which, as philosophers tell us, is the way to have a pure mind, and the name Uranus is there fore correct. If I could remember the genealogy of Hesio...

...ey came to the island The Argonautica 78 of Philyra, where Cronos, son of Uranus, what time in Olympus he reigned over the Titans, and Zeus was yet b... ...al, resembling gold in appearance. **i.e. the Sickle-island. 144 blood of Uranus. T o them came Argo, held fast by many toils, borne by the breezes f...

...if they existed, would have been more difficult to calculate than those of Uranus which led to the discovery of Neptune. It was every day an increasin...

...ailed me to express my feelings. I felt as if I was in some distant planet Uranus or Neptune—and in the presence of phenomena of which my terrestrial ...

... charge of murder; doing as the gods do—as Zeus did to Cronos, and Cronos to Uranus. Socrates has a dislike to these tales of mythol ogy , and he fan... ...milar chastisement on his own father), but not equally pleasing to Cronos or Uranus (who suffered at the hands of their sons). Euthyphro answers that ... ...e wickedly devoured his sons, and that he too had punished his own fa ther (Uranus) for a similar reason, in a name less manner . And yet when I pro... ...very likely be doing what is agreeable to Zeus but disagreeable to Cronos or Uranus, and what is acceptable to Hephaestus but unaccept able to Here, ...

...r . For there are two loves, as there are two Aphrodites—one the daughter of Uranus, who has no mother and is the elder and wiser goddess, and the oth... ...ving no mother, who is called the heavenly Aphrodite— she is the daughter of Uranus; the younger , who is the daughter of Zeus and Dione —her we call ...

...e was that greatest of all lies, in high places, which the poet told about Uranus, and which was a bad lie too, — I mean what Hesiod says that Uranus ...

...’d soprano (what work with hers is this?) The orchestra whirls me wider than Uranus flies, It wrenches such ardors from me I did not know I possess’d ...