Smith, Hamilton Lanphere, 1819-1903. [from old catalog] · Cleveland, M. C. Younglove and company · leaf 132
r warmed by contact with the heated ground, rises con-stantly to the upper regions. Its place is supplied by colder airmoving along the surface of the earth, from the colder northernand southern climates. The effect of this wrould be to producea north wind north of the equator, and a south wind… … Let P be one of the poles of the earth, A B a parallel of latitude,and E E, the equator. Now it is evident that the diurnal move-ment of a body attached ,to the parallel A B, is slower than oneat the equator E E, since the equatorial belt or circle, is of muchgreater circumference than the circle…
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![An illustration from Nicolai Copernici Torinensis De reuolutionibus orbium coelestium, libri VI : Habes in hoc opere iam recens nato, & aedito, studiose lector, motus stellarum, tam fixarum, quàm erraticarum, cum ex ueteribus, tum etiam ex recentibus obseruationibus restitutos: & nouis insuper ac admirabilibus hypothesibus ornatos. Habes etiam tabulas expeditissimas, ex quibus eosdem ad quoduis tempus quàm facillime caculare poteris. Igitur eme, lege, fruere. [Line in Greek] (1543)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-nicolaicopernici00cope-102-72.webp)
