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The book of stars; being a simple explanation of the stars and their uses to boy life, written to conform to the tests of the Boy scouts (1915)

Collins, A. Frederick (Archie Frederick), 1869- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 106

An illustration from The book of stars; being a simple explanation of the stars and their uses to boy life, written to conform to the tests of the Boy scouts, 1915, leaf 106 — ible. MOTHER EARTH, OLD ADAMS PLANET 87 How to Know When Yon Are at the North Pole.—If you should ever reach the north pole where overhead is north andevery other direction is south how would you know it? Suppose you were standing on the exact top of the worldduring one of its long polar nights,… … 9 „*——-*^3PM ■HP-** ««l.4.*Mttaft«<* Fig. 100.—Shadows at the North Pole. But if you were there during a long Arctic day, that is, inthe good old summertime, you could see the Sun making agreat circle, or seem to, once in 24 hours, always keeping thesame position, and never going higher or…

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