Marble statues are appropriately distributed representing the Seasons, the goddess Flora, neptune, and others, recalling the Prado at Madrid, which is similarly ornamented.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
It is convenient to regard these asteroids as composing by themselves a class of very small planets, while the remaining 8 larger planets fall naturally into two other classes, a group of medium-sized ones-Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars-called inner planets by reason of their nearness to the sun; and the outer planets-Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, neptune-each of which is much larger and more massive than any planet of the inner group.
"A Text-Book of Astronomy"
George C. Comstock
With exception of neptune, the agreement between Bode's law and the true distances is very striking, but most remarkable is the presence in the series of a number, 2.8, with no planet corresponding to it.
"A Text-Book of Astronomy"
George C. Comstock