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 205
ning in a direction towards the west. Were we tocommence our observations on the 21st of December, in thelatitude of 52° north, which nearly corresponds to that ofLondon, we should see the sun rising near the southeast pointof the horizon, as at S E, Fig. LXVII., describing a com-paratively small… … between seven and eight hours above the horizon ; and whenhe arrives at S, at midday, which is the highest point of hiselevation, he is only about fourteen degrees above the horizon,which may be represented by the line S B. After disappear-ing in our horizon in the evening, he describes the…
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![An illustration from Nicolai Copernici Torinensis De reuolutionibus orbium coelestium, libri VI : Habes in hoc opere iam recens nato, & aedito, studiose lector, motus stellarum, tam fixarum, quàm erraticarum, cum ex ueteribus, tum etiam ex recentibus obseruationibus restitutos: & nouis insuper ac admirabilibus hypothesibus ornatos. Habes etiam tabulas expeditissimas, ex quibus eosdem ad quoduis tempus quàm facillime caculare poteris. Igitur eme, lege, fruere. [Line in Greek] (1543)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-nicolaicopernici00cope-38-16.webp)