Willson, Robert Wheeler, 1853-1922 · Boston, New York Ginn & company · leaf 28
e dome of theheavens appears to be a small circle described from east to westabout a fixed point in the dome as a pole. The ancient explanationof this fact was that the sun is fixed in a transparent spherical shell THE DIURNAL MOTION OF THE SUN 15 of immense size revolving daily about an axis, the… … Fig.17 apparent direction and motion of the sun would be practicallythe same on our hemisphere to a microscopic observer at thecenter, and to another anywhere within one-hundredth of an inchof the center. When observations were made, however, at pointssome hundreds of miles apart on the same…
Astronomy
Internet Archive · Cornell University Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
