A short course in astronomy and the use of the globes (1871)
Kiddle, Henry, 1824-1891 · New York, Chicago, Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & co. · leaf 174
theeast during the time of a rotation, the earth must turn farther inorder to bringr the place again into the same relative position withthe sun. This will be understood by examining the annexeddiagram. 274. What afford standards for measuring: timo? What is a sidereal day?°T5. What is a solar day?… … which the sun is on the meridian at 1; P, the same place after onecomplete rotation, as shown by the parallel F S. It will be evi-dent that, in order to bring P under the meridian, so that the sunmay appear to cross it, the earth will have to turn a space repre-sented by the arc F M, which will…
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