A compendium of astronomy; containing the elements of the science, familiarly explained and illustrated, with the latest discoveries. Adapted to the use of schools and academies, and of the general reader (1850)
Olmsted, Denison, 1791-1859 · New York, R. B. Collins · leaf 92
T ANNUAL MOTION OF THE SUN SEASONS FIGURE OF THE EARTHS ORBIT. 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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![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-149-83.webp)
