Flammarion, Camille, 1842-1925, Lockyer, Winifred James, Mrs., d. 1879 · New York, C. Scribner & co. · leaf 236
resents, as a whole, a curvatureentirely like that of the seas. Moreover, on the land as onthe sea, the highest objects are always the first and lastwliicli the traveller sees. Proofs that the Earth is Round. 225 Voyages of circumnavigation have, on the other hand,given a palpable proof of the… … 45. Curvature of the Sea clianged its direction, one of his vessels (that of LieutenantCano) reached Europe three years afterwards, as if it had comefrom the East. The numerous voyages of circumnavigationaccomplished since that time have superabundantly con-firmed this truth,—the Earth is ronnd in…
Astronomy
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