The earth and sky; a primer of astronomy for young readers (1898)
Holden, Edward Singleton, 1846-1914 · New York, D. Appleton & Company · leaf 52
high can see aboutone hundred miles. Look at the last picture once more, please.If you were at the very top of the mountain,at s, you would see about you in every direc-tion, and the rim of your world would be theline marked horizon at the top of the moun-tain. You could see justas far toward the… … THE EARTH IS A LARGE GLOBE. 25 if you looked east or west you could see toEov JTand no farther. That circle, NE8W,would be your hori-zon line. Half of itis shown in the pic-ture of the mountain.Your horizon lineon the earth, whetheryou are at sea or ona large plain, is al-ways a circle. If youlook…
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