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 68
ific in the bark Endeavor, where he perished subsequently by thehands of savages at one of the Sandwich islands. Observations upon these transits fur-nish data for important astronomical calculations. 119. In consequence of the earths annual revolutionaround the sun, he appears to travel eastward,… … Let a person walk around a tree, for instance, at a sbort distance from it, and it willappear to sweep around the horizon in an opposite direction. So as the earth revolvesannually about the sun, the sun appears to traverse the circle of the heavens in the oppo-site direction. Suppose the earth is…
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