Celestial scenery, or, The Wonders of the planetary system displayed : illustrating the perfections of deity and a plurality of worlds (1845)
Dick, Thomas, 1774-1857, Parker, E. S., former owner. DSI, David H. DeVorkin Collection (Smithsonian Institution. Libraries) DSI · Philadelphia : Published by Edward C. Biddle · leaf 114
able degree, the most appalling anddisastrous effects might be produced ; the ocean, in manyplaces, might overflow the land, and rush from the equatortowards the polar regions, and produce a general devastationand destruction to myriads of its inhabitants. If the axispointed always to the centre of… … polar points to guide the mariner, nor could his course bedirected through the ocean by any of the stars of heaven. When the earth is in the first point of Libra, the sun ap-pears in the opposite point of the ecliptic, at Aries, about the21st of March; and when the earth is in Aries, the sun>…
Astronomy
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