Popular lessons in astronomy, on a new plan; (1833)
Grund, Francis J. (Francis Joseph), 1804-1863 · Boston, Carter, Hendee and co. · leaf 50
lowlyturning a ball near the flame of a candle). This gradual motion of each portionof the Earths surface toward or from the Sun, makes the Sun himself ap-pear to us as rising and going down; while, in fact, we ourselves are turn-ing towards, or receding from him. This is a kind of deception… … Less. IV.] IN ASTRONOMY. 15 The gradual rise and setting of the Sun is another excellent provision of nature. Were wefrom the darkness of night at once exposed to the luminous rays of the Sun, it would dazzle oureyes and render them unfit to distinguish a single object. — It is only by a gradual…
Astronomy, Juvenile and popular
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