A high-school astronomy: in which the descriptive, physical, and practical are combined .. (1859)
Mattison, Hiram, 1811-1868 · New York, Mason brothers · leaf 69
rs in both hemi-spheres. To secure the advantages of observations at different points, Capt. Cook was 117. Node months of Venus ? Where line of nodes ? Why June andDecember her node months ? (Why only one month after those of Mercury ?) 118. When last transit of Venus ? Next ? (How many have been… … Let a person walk around a tree, for instance, at a short distance from it, »t*(l U *iUappear to sweep around the horizon in an opposite direction. So as the earth revivesannually about the sun, the sun appears to traverse the circle of the heavens in the oppo-site direction. Suppose the earth is…
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