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 187
ch the heavensappear to revolve, as beneath his feet is the pivot on which the Earth actually revolves;and round this point the starsappear to move in- circles,which get larger and largeras the horizon is approached.The stars never rise or set,Moriz^11^ J but always keep the same dis-tance from the… … direction. 336. We will now change our position. In Fig. 71the celestial sphere is again represented, but this time wesuppose an observer, Q, at its centre, to be on the Earths equator. In this positionwe find the celestial equa-tor in the zenith, and thecelestial poles PP on thetrue horizon, and…
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