The geography of the heavens, and class-book of astronomy: accompanied by a celestial atlas (1873)
Burritt, Elijah H. (Elijah Hinsdale), 1794-1838, Mattison, Hiram, 1811-1868, ed, Whitall, Henry, 1819-1887? Celestial planisphere · New York, Sheldon & company · leaf 187
in the mean time,follows the Sun iu the same direction, the apparent elongationswill be prolonged to between 55 and 65 days. 350. The passage of Mercury or Venus directly between theEarth and the Sun, and apparently over this disc, is called aTransi*. A transit can never occur except when the… … This cut represents the ecliptic and zodiac, with the orbit of an interior planet, hianodes, Ac. The line of his nodes is, as shown, in the 16° of » and the 16° of nj,. Now ifthe earth is in a , on the line L N, as sl:own in the cut, when Mercury is at his aacendingnode (ft), he will seem to pass…
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