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Astronomy without a telescope: (1869)

Colbert, E[lias] [from old catalog] · Chicago, G. & C. W. Sherwood · leaf 97

An illustration from Astronomy without a telescope:, 1869, leaf 97
e at C C,the Sun being seen beyond F. Two months morebrings the Earth and Jupiter to D D ; and now thecombined motion commences to change the direc-tion of the line joining their centers, the Earthmoving so much the more rapidly of the two, andthe line F F points 10° backward from the direc-tion of… … At F F the change of direction of the line ceasesfor a time, and Jupiter appears to be stationary, JUPITER AND VENUS 65 then to move forward in the direction of the arrowsas the Earth passes round to J, where Jupiter isagain seen as in Conjunction with the Sua. Dar-in o- the Synodic Revolution, the…

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