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)
s. The Red Sea is 30 feet higher thanthe Mediterranean. Inland seas and lakes have no perceptible tides. 930. Atmospherical tides.—There is no doubt but that thesame influences which cause tides of the sea, produce tides of the atmo-sphere. The air being lighter than water, and nearer to the moon,… … The Stms Declination,—Zones and Temperature. 931. Figure 22.—The declination of the sun.—This fig-ure represents the direction in which the rays of the sun fall upon theearth, when the latter is at her solstitial and equinoctial points. The student should compare the following explanation with…
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