Johnson's natural philosophy and key to philosophical charts : illustrated with 500 cuts; being reduced photographic copies of all the diagrams contained in the author's philosophical series of indestructible school charts ; for the use of schools and families (1878)
thanthat of FR; hence, the parallax of the moon is less at L than it wasatN. Diurnal parallax applies only to bodies of the solar system. The starsare too far off, of course, to show any difference in position when viewedfrom points so near together as the centre and surface of the earth. 887. The… … ASTRONOMY. 455 888. The principles of parallax are of great impor-tance, as by them the distance of the sohir bodies from the earth, themagnitude of the planets, and the dimensions of their orbits, may allbe determined. Having thns found the distance of the earth from thesun, that of all the…
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