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The elements of astronomy; a textbook (1919)

Young, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1834-1908, Young, Anne Sewell, b. 1871., ed · Boston, New York [etc.] Ginn and Company · leaf 386

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Fig. 123. Explanation of the FoucaultPendulum Experiment. … 366 APPENDIX. [§ 494 The total amount of this deviation in a day is easily estimated geo-metrically. Suppose a parallel of latitude drawn through the placewhere the experiment is made, and a series of tangents drawn atpoints close together on this parallel. Allthese tangents will meet at some point…

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