Elementary astronomy; a beginner's text-book (1899)
Holden, Edward Singleton, 1846-1914 · New York, H. Holt and company · leaf 75
- 54 ASTRONOMY. pletely and thoroughly explains every single one of millionsand millions of cases—some of them very different fromothers. There are some rather complicated proofs of it,but no simple ones suitable to be given here. We mustaccept it as true because it explains completely and… … The real motion of the horizon of an observer among the stars makesthem aimear to rise and set. them appear to rise and set. The observer on the Earth is unconscious of its rotation,and the celestial sphere appears to him to revolve fromeast to west around the Earth, while the Earth appears…
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