Smith, Hamilton Lanphere, 1819-1903. [from old catalog] · Cleveland, M. C. Younglove and company · leaf 70
volution of the earth on its axis. This day is shorterthan the Solar day, by about 4 minutes. We have also alludedto the apparent motion of the sun in the heavens, showing that ifto-day he came to the meridian at the same time with any particularstar, to-morrow the star would come to the meridian… … shorter than the Solar, to do which we will have recourse to a diagram 68 THE WORLD. Let A B C D, represent the earths annual orbit, showing- theearth in four different positions, and let a be the situation of someparticular meridian, that of Greenwich, for example. Now, onthe supposition that the…
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