A high-school astronomy: in which the descriptive, physical, and practical are combined .. (1859)
Mattison, Hiram, 1811-1868 · New York, Mason brothers · leaf 30
; but the term is here used in an accommodatedsense, as only three of these five divisions at all resemble a girdle. The parts cut offby the polar circles are mere convex segments of the earths surface. The tropics ? Names ? Polar circles ? Names ? Zones ? Names ? (Arethere in reality any frigid… … The Torrid Zone is situated between THE ^Z0NES-the Tropics; the Temperate, betweenthe Tropics and the Polar Circles; andthe Frigid, between the Polar Circlesand the Poles. Meridians are imaginary lines drawnfrom pole to pole over the earths sur-face. Meridians cross the Equator at right angles; and…
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