The earth and sky; a primer of astronomy for young readers (1898)
Holden, Edward Singleton, 1846-1914 · New York, D. Appleton & Company · leaf 53
uld 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 up in the skythere is no horizonthere at all. Youcan look off as faras the moon andthe stars. These arefacts which… … school globe that shows theround earth with its continentsand oceans. The lines aredrawn on the globe for conven-ience to show the latitudesand longitudes of cities. Ofcourse there are no such lineson the real earth. 26 THE EARTH AND SKY. We know that the earth is a very largeglobe too. If we…
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