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 58
tric longitude of a planet is itslongitude as viewed from the sun ; and the geocentric, itslongitude as viewed from the earth. Geocentric is from ge, the earth, and keniran, center; and heliocentric from helios,the sun, and kentron, center. 91. Celestial longitude? Where begin to reckon? Illustrate… … In this cut, the planet B, when viewed from the earth at A, seems to be in the signCo; but when viewed from the sun, it appears to be in n. Again: when at C, herapparent longitude from the earth is in rrt; when from the sun, she appears to be in t.The reader will not only perceive the difference…
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