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A high-school astronomy: in which the descriptive, physical, and practical are combined .. (1853)

Mattison, Hiram, 1811-1868 · New York, F. J. Huntingdon [etc.] · leaf 55

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••■0--..^/.:.^ #- … In this cut, the interior dotted circle represents the earths orbit; the exterior theplane of her orbit extended to the starry heavens. The dark lines each side of theecliptic are the limits of the zodiac. The earth is shown in perspective, largest near tous, and growing smaller as her distance is…

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