A high-school astronomy: in which the descriptive, physical, and practical are combined .. (1859)
Mattison, Hiram, 1811-1868 · New York, Mason brothers · leaf 91
nets, at a distance from our globe, it would exhibitphases like Mercury and Venus, in its annual revolution ;and the continents, islands, and seas would appear onlyas spots upon her surface, assuming various forms, ac-cording to the position from which they were viewed. 170. What else seen upon… … Above we have four different views of our own globe. No. 1 is a view of theNorthern Hemisphere; No. 2, of the Southern; No. 3, of the Eastern Continent; No. 4,of the Western. A common terrestrial globe will present a different aspect from everynew position from which it is viewed; as the earth must…
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