Mattison, Hiram, 1811-1868 · New York, Huntington and Savage, Mason and Law · leaf 20
y in motion. We often transfer our own motion, in imagination, to bodies thatare at rest, as already shown at Question 9. Copernicus tells us that he was first ledto think that the apparent motions of the heavenly bodies, in their diurnal revolution,were owing to the real motion of the earth in the… … 14 PKIMARY ASTRONOMY. to glide by us, when, on riding swiftly past them, we lose the consciousness of ourown motion. 3. For the sun and fixed stars to revolve daily around the earth would require aninconceivable velocity. To perform their respective journeys, the sun would have tofly onward at the…
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