The heavens above: a popular handbook of astronomy (1882)
Gillet, J. A. (Joseph Anthony), 1837-1908 · New York, Chicago, Potter, Ainsworth, & Co. · leaf 47
e celestial equator has thesame direction as tlie terres-trial equator, since the axisof the heavens has the samedirection as the axis of theearth. ^- ^■ Suppose the globe at the centre of the tub (Fig. 31) torepresent the sun, and the smaller globes to represent theearth in various positions in… … ASTRONOMY, 29 same direction, or to lean the same way. The leaning of the axis from the perpendicular to the surface of the water would cause the earths equator to be inclined the same amount to the surface of the water, half of the equator being above, and half of it below, the surface. Were the…
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