The wonders of the heavens, being a popular view of astronomy, including a full illustration of the mechanism of the heavens; embracing the sun, moon, and stars, with descriptions of the planets, comets, fixed stars, double stars, the constellations, the galaxy, or milky-way, the zodiacal light, aurora borealis, or norhtern lights, meteors, clouds, falling stars, aërolites, &c (1837)
Bradford, Duncan. [from old catalog] · Boston, American stationers company · leaf 105
rcles called tropics. When the sun is at oneof the solstices, the countries which are near thispoint will have summer; those will have winterthat are the most distant from this point. As tothe days, the longest will be when the sun is in thesummer solstice; the shortest, when the sun is atthe… … when the sun comes toward the northern hemis-phere, and autumn when it passes again into thesouthern hemisphere. Such are the different appearances which the sunsuccessively presents to us in its orbit, returning tothe point whence it set out. The time requiredfor its apparent revolution is called…
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