The world machine. The first phase: the cosmic mechanism (1907)
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e,moreover, right-angled triangles. He has then only to measurethe two angles at M to construct these triangles in right pro-portion, and knowing the distance he has come from his hut(the line H M), he may quickly compute the respective distancesof the two peaks. The position of the man upon the… … Fig. 6. so that we can see what is underneath it, this is little materialgain ; we are bound to it as Ixion to his wheel. It is evident that, at the time of a solar eclipse, the sun andthe moon stand in something of the relation of the two peakswe have imagined ; so that if, at the moment the moon…
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