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 89
ay and the night at theequator each 12 hours long and the day and the night at thenorth and south poles each six months long. The line round the Earth which is in a plane with the Sunis called the ecliptic, and for this reason the Sun seems to follow 70 THE BOOK OF THE STARS a path round the Earth… … SOUTHPOLE Fig. 74.—If the Earths Equator Was in a Line with the Sun. are standing still and that it is the Earth which is whirlinground on its own axis and also round the Sun. We have given a couple of experiments to show that the
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