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The world: (1848)

Smith, Hamilton Lanphere, 1819-1903. [from old catalog] · Cleveland, M. C. Younglove and company · leaf 108

An illustration from The world:, 1848, leaf 108
ut the preceding chapter, we have spoken of theplane of the orbit of the earth as inclined to the plane of the equa-tor. As a necessary result of this, the axis of the earth points, atall times, towards the same point of the heavens, with the ex-ception of the slight motion caused by the precession… … A B C D, represent the earth in four different positions in itsorbit. Now, if the axis of the earth was perpendicular to the planeof the orbit, as shown in the diagram, then the plane of the equa-tor, a, b, would correspond with the plane of the orbit, but, as theplane of the equator manifestly…

Astronomy · Meteorology · Geology · Paleontology

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