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)
ere at E, aray from his centre would fall less obliquely at New York and be re-flected in the direction of F. If the sun were at N, a ray from hiscentre would fall upon New York still less obliquely and be reflectedto L, nearly in a perijendicular direction to the earths surface. CHAPTEE XXI.… … 474 ASTRONOMY. a circle of celestial latitude, and not from the equinoctial or celestialequator, E. Celestial latitude, therefore, is distance north or south ofthe ecliptic; and as one half of the ecliptic, B, is south of the equinoc-tial (E) and the earths equator, it follows that a star may be in…
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