Berry, Arthur,b. 1862 · London, J. Murray · leaf 79
owards the south. This was known actually to be the casenot very far south of Alexandria. It was similarly recog-nised that on the other side of the equator there must bea region in which the sun ordinarily cast shadows towardsthe south, but occasionally towards the north. These tworegions are the… … Fig. 15. —The equator, the horizon,and the meridian. § s6] The Measurement of the Earth 39 is more than 66|°, the sun passes in summer into theregion of the circumpolar stars which never set (chapter 1.,§9), and therefore during a portion of the summer the sunremains continuously above the horizon.…
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