Evershed, M. A. (Orr) · London : Gall & Inglis · leaf 40
t easy. On a great moving platform, such THE HEAVENLY BODIES. 19 as that which encircled the Paris Exhibition in 1900,there are fixed posts etc. which revolve exactly as thewhole platform revolves and do not move aboutamongst themselves. These are like the fixed starson the (apparently) revolving… … Equator South Celestiai Pole Fig. 4. The star ephere. slowly in the opposite direction, and so he neutralizespart of the platform movement and is not carriedonward quite so quickly as the stationary posts : he isthe sun. A woman walks as he does, but much morequickly, so that she rapidly passes…
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 · Astronomy
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