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A compendium of astronomy; (1855)

Olmsted, Denison, 1791-1859. [from old catalog] · New York, R. B. Collins · leaf 92

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ANNUAL MOTION OF THE SUN- FIGURE OF THE EARTHS ORBIT. -SEASONS 110. The revolution of the earth around the sun oncea year, produces an apparent motion of the sun aroundthe earth in the same period. When bodies are at sucha distance from each other as the earth and the sun, aspectator on either… … the sun in the opposite sign Aries. When the earthmoves from Libra to Scorpio, as we are unconscious ofour own motion, the sun it is that appears to move fromAries to Taurus, being always seen in the heavens, where 80 THE SUN. a line drawn from the eye of the spectator through thebody meets the…

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