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 116
r season. The following, among other reasons, may THE SEASONS ILLUSTRATED. 107 be assigned, which will partly account for this effect: 1. Thesun rises to a much higher altitude above the horizon in sum-mer than in winter, and, consequently, its rays falling moredirectly and less oblique, the… … (D C,) and obliquely on another plane, (E C,) it is evidentthey will occupy a smaller space (1> C) in the former than (EC) in the latter; and, consequently, their heat would be muchgreater in the lesser space D C than in the larger space E C.If, instead of lines, we suppose D C and E C to be the…
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