Wright, Julia McNair, 1840-1903 · Philadelphia, The Penn publishing company · leaf 112
e. When this new ring arrived at adistance of some ninety-one or two millions of milesfrom the sun, it was stayed by attractive force gettingthe better of tangential force. Turning over andover in the direction from west to east, w^hich it hadreceived from the sun, this ring came together intoa… … <3reen jEartb 101 ellipse is always toward the sun. The rotation ofthe earth on its axis occupies twenty-four hours;the synodic, or yearly journey is a little ever threehundred and sixty-five days. If the plane ofthe earths motion were not inclined, or, as wemight say, tilted, to the plane of…
Astronomy
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