Star-land; being talks with young people about the wonders of the heavens (1899)
Ball, Robert Stawell, Sir, 1840- [from old catalog] · Boston and London, Ginn & company · leaf 63
ppearedthat ships had been voyaging all over the globe nightand day in every direction, and that no captain had ever 50 STAR-LAND. seen the sun coming down to the sea, and still less hadhe ever met with Vulcan in the course of his incessantvoyages. Thus it was discovered that the earth couldnot be… … Fig. 21. — How we illustrate the Changes between Day and Night. sun actually went round the earth through the spaceunderneath our feet. This is, indeed, what it seems todo. But there was a great difficulty about this expla-nation, which began to be perceived when the sizeand distance of the sun…
Astronomy
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