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 80
ries that the Pole does not shift its position to any considerable extent in the earth itself. In fact, if we could reach the North Pole and drive a peg into the ground year after year to mark the exact spot, we should find that the position of the Pole was sensibly the same. Does it not seem… … 68 STAR-LAND. to understand the point quite easily. The latitude of aplace, as you know from your geography, is the numberof degrees, and parts of a degree, between that place andthe equator. In our observatories, we can determinethis so accurately that the difference between the lati-tude of one…
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