Elementary astronomy; a beginner's text-book (1899)
Holden, Edward Singleton, 1846-1914 · New York, H. Holt and company · leaf 66
AND STABS. 45 table represents the ground, and the lines in the circle Brepresent a number of laths accurately set at the point 0. This figure makes everything clear. The laths havebeen set at equal intervals of time and they are at equalangles apart. This proves that the apparent motion of thestar… … Fig. 24 —A Model to show how Stars seem to move fromRising to Setting in their Diurnal Paths. of pointers for this star would look like the cone of raysmarked A in the figure. All the laths would lie in thesurface of a cone, and the vertex of this cone wouldbe at 0. If he had chosen a star nearer…
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