Harris, John · Montreal, Lovell Printing and Publishing Co. · leaf 57
holdgood ; but, on the contrary, the suns axis of rotationbeing now perpendicular to the ecliptic, the spot seenat A. is also actually at Q., (because A. and Q. nowcoincide,) and is projected upon D., as observed. Itis evident that S., the south pole of the sun, will nowoccupy nearly the same… … paralled to each other and perpendicular to the plane ofthe solar equator; S, the south pole of the sun, is withinthe visible hemisphere, and it now appears that the point THE SOLAR SPOTS. 33 B., mistaken in fig. 7 for the suns equator, is, in fact,below the equator by the distance Q.B.* The…
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