The elements of theoretical and descriptive astronomy, for the use of colleges and academies (1872)
White, Charles J. (Charles Joyce), 1839-1917 · Philadelphia, Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger · leaf 229
detected in the position of a star when observed at places ofwidely different latitudes. The conclusion drawn from thisfact is, that the stars are so distant that lines drawn from anytwo points on the earths surface to the same star are sensibly pa-rallel : in other words, that the stars have no… … Fig. 75. star, supposed to lie in the plane of the ecliptic, and NMa por-tion of the celestial sphere. From s draw lines sE, sE, tan-gent to the earths orbit, and also prolong them beyond s, untilthey meet the arc of the celestial sphere NM. Draw the radiivectores SEf and SE to the points of…
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