Young, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1834-1908, Young, Anne Sewell, b. 1871., ed · Boston, New York [etc.] Ginn and Company · leaf 389
t is west of n ;so that m in the apparent diurnal revolution of the sky will comefirst to the meridian. In other words, when the sun is half-waybetween the vernal equinox and the summer solstice, the sun-dial,so far as the obliquity of the ecliptic is concerned, is faster than the clock,and this… … Fig. 127. — Effect of Obliquity of Eclipticin producing Equation of Time. 1 The figure represents a globe seen from the west side, with the vernalequinox at E. EC is the ecliptic, and EQ the equator. 370 APPENDIX. [§498 If the ecliptic be divided into equal portions from E to C, andhour-circles be…
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