Elementary astronomy; a beginner's text-book (1899)
Holden, Edward Singleton, 1846-1914 · New York, H. Holt and company · leaf 177
tial sphere at 1; whenthe earth reaches 2 the Sun will appear at 2, and so on.In other words, as the Earth revolves around the Sun, thelatter will seem to perform a revolution among the fixed 156 ASTRONOMY. stars. The stars do not seem to move because they are atsuch enormous distances that a… … Fig. 97.—The Annual Revolution of the Earth about the Sun, in the Orbit A BCD. The diameter of this orhit is about 186,000,000 miles. The apparent places of the Sun (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, etc.)can be denned in the sky by their right-ascensions anddeclinations, or by their distances from the stars…
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