Star-land : being talks with young people about the wonders of the heavens (1891)
Ball, Robert S. (Robert Stawell), Sir, 1840-1913 · London ; Paris : Cassell & Co. · leaf 63
England gradually round so that itpasses into the dark side, and then night falls over thecountry. At the same time New Zealand is turned round to 48 Star-Land. enjoy the smiles of day. This is a very simple method ofaccounting for the succession of clay and night, and it is alsothe true method. We… … Fig. 20.—How we illustrate the Changes between Day and Night. Our earth is at this moment spinning round at a speedso great that London moves many hundreds of miles everyhour. A town near the equator would gallop round at apace of more than a thousand miles an hour—quicker,in fact, than a…
Astronomy
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