Elements of astronomy: accompanied with numerous illustrations, a colored representation of the solar, stellar, and nebular spectra, and celestial charts of the northern and the southern hemisphere (1875)
Lockyer, Norman, Sir, 1836-1920 · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 115
thus wafted towardthe equator is soon itself heated andascends, and accumulating in thehigher regions flows as an upper cur-Fig.51.-the trades and rent toward either pole. Thus are Anti-trades. ., _ _ _ produced the anti-trades relerred toabove, which in the regions beyond the calms of Cancerand… … -*—^. what successive belts do we find the Earths surface divided ? 208. How are thetrade-winds produced? How, the anti-trades ? For what is the equatorial beltremarkable? 209. What makes the trade-winds deviate in direction from due TRADE-WINDS AND ANTI-TRADES. 109 209. If the Earth did not turn…
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