The heavens above: a popular handbook of astronomy (1882)
Gillet, J. A. (Joseph Anthony), 1837-1908 · New York, Chicago, Potter, Ainsworth, & Co. · leaf 77
equator is alsoevident from the followingconsiderations: one-half ofthe earth is in sunshine allof the time; when the sunis on the celestial equator,it is directly over the equa-tor of the eartli, and theillumination extends frompole to pole, as is evidentfrom Figs. 70 and 71, inthe former of which… … Fig- 71. ASTRONOMY. 59
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