The geography of the heavens, and class book of astronomy: (1853)
Burritt, Elijah H. (Elijah Hinsdale), 1794-1838, Mattison, Hiram, 1811-1868, Dick, Thomas, 1774-1857. [from old catalog] · New York, F. J. Huntington [etc.] · leaf 282
ns per-manent. Wherever the Sun crosses the equinoctial in thespring, there is the vernal equinox ; and wherever he crossesit in the autumn, there is the autumnal equinox, and thesopoints are constantly moving to the west What are the equinoxes? What is meant by the pr&zeziinn of the equinoxes… … To render this subject fa-miliar, we will suppose twocarriage roads, extendingquite around the Earth : one,representing the equator,running due east and west;and the other representingthe ecliptic, running nearlyin the same direction as theformer, yet so as to cross itwith a small angle (say…
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