Lockyer, Norman, Sir, 1836-1920 · London : Macmillan and Co. · leaf 184
Right sphere. Above his head is the pivot on which the heavensappear to revolve, as underneath his feet is the pivot on APPARENT MOVEMENTS. 149 which the Earth actually revolves; and round this pointthe stars appear to move in circles, the circles gettinglarger and larger as the horizon is… … Fig. 24.—The Celestial Sphere, viewed from a middle latitude. An Obliquesphere. In this woodcut DD shows the apparent path of a circumpolarstar ; BBB the path and rising and setting points of an equatorial star;CCC and AAA those of stars of mid-declination, one north and theother south. 332. We…
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