Jones, H. Spencer (Harold Spencer), 1890- · London E. Arnold & co. · leaf 78
drops appear to be Fig- ^V-—Aberration. falling slantwise towards him, since their velocity relative to him is a combination oftheir velocity and the velocity of the train. If light consistedof material corpuscles, it is clear that in a precisely similarmanner the apparent direction of the light… … 66 GENERAL ASTRONOMY If then, in Fig. 27, OP is the direction of motion of the Eartharound the Sun, 0^ the direction to a star, and if OA, OBrepresent in magnitude the velocities of the Earth and of light,the apparent direction of the star is OC, the diagonal of theparallelogram OAGB. If 6 is the…
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