Colbert, E[lias] [from old catalog] · Chicago, G. & C. W. Sherwood · leaf 113
esult thus found,because neither the Earth nor the Moon are perfectspheres, and the amount of departure from thetrue globular form is not precisely the same in eachcase. 190. It has been ascertained, by repeated ob-servation, that at the time of the Moons FirstQuarter, the Earth is about 0°06 in… … DISTANCE, DIMENSION, AND WEIGHT. 81 Earth is preceded in her orbit by the Moon, she isretarded, and when the Moon is behind in theorder of the Signs, the Earth is pushed forward bythis amount. Astronomers have concluded fromthis fact that it is not the Earths center, but apoint between it and the…
Astronomy · Stars
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