Elementary astronomy; a beginner's text-book (1899)
Holden, Edward Singleton, 1846-1914 · New York, H. Holt and company · leaf 193
that day is a maxi- 172 ASTRONOMY. muni. Its meridian altitude on the day of the wintersolstice is a minimum. If AB is an obelisk and the line Bd is a north and southline, and if the Sun is on the line Ad on December 22 andon Aj on June 21, then the shadow of the obelisk will beBj in June (the… … m j B Fig. 108.—The Obliquity of the Ecliptic—determined by the shadow of an obelisk at a place whose latitude is 45# N. latitude of the place, as the student can readily prove forhimself. The Cause of the Seasons on the Earth.—In each andevery year we, who live in the temperate zones of theEarth,…
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