Lessons in astronomy including uranography. A brief intoductory course without mathematics (1896)
Young, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1834-1908 · Boston, London, Ginn and company · leaf 347
Art. 228); i.e., the time inwhich she gains one entire revolution. upon the earth. Thisis 584 days, as has been known from remote antiquity. Fig. 99 represents things at a transit of Venus, as they wouldbe seen by one looking down from an infinitely distant pointabove the earths north pole. As seen… … 334 APPENDIX. [§ 438 438. Suppose, now, that two observers, E and W (Fig. 99),are stationed opposite each other, and near the earths equator. E will see Venus strike the sunsdisc before W does, and if theyboth observe the moment of con-tact, in Greenwich time, the differ-ence between their records…
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