Elementary astronomy; a beginner's text-book (1899)
Holden, Edward Singleton, 1846-1914 · New York, H. Holt and company · leaf 188
it, the other(Capricorn) 23^° south of it. They are called tropics because the Sunthere turns from going north (or south) in declination and begins togo south (or north). They are marked on all globes. The regionsof the earth between the latitudes 23$°. north, and south are called thetropics.… … south poleFig. 104.—The Circles of the Earth.
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