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 92
outh, although it is in realityour horizon, which, travelling with us southwardround the sphere, sinks in succession beneath them.The novelty and splendor of fresh constellationsthus gradually brought into view in the clear calmnights of tropical climates, in long voyages to thesouth, is dwelt upon… … ^ travel. A glance at the accompanying figure, ex-hibiting three successive stations of a traveller,A, B, C, with the horizon corresponding to each,will place this process in clearer evidence than anydescription. Suppose the earth itself to have a motion of rota-tion on its centre. It is evident…
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