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 292
each. That the heavenly bodies, particularly the sun, are muchgreater than they appear to the vulgar eye, may be proved bythe following consideration : When the sun vises due east, in ON ASCERTAINING DISTANCES. 283 the morning, his orb appears just as largo as it does when hecomes to the meridian… … Let A B C D represent the earth, and S the sun at thepoint of his rising. Suppose the line A E C to representthe meridian of a certain place, and A or E the place of aspectator. When the sun, in his apparent diurnal motion,comes opposite the meridian A C, he is a whole semidia-meter of the earth…
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