The world machine. The first phase: the cosmic mechanism (1907)
Snyder, Carl, 1869-1946 · London, New York [etc.] Longmans, Green, and co. · leaf 126
he sun, as at E, and its daily revolution makes the sun appearto rise, the sun will be seen to come up in the direction ofthe group of stars which lie against the face of the sky opposite,say the constellation of Leo. When the earth has swept rounda quarter of a turn, at E^, then the sun will seem… … corrv Fig. 10. earths axis is always pointed in the direction of the pole-star,it sweeps round the sun always tilted on its side, and always atthe same tilt. But this would explain the change of the lengthof days. If the earth on one side of the sun leaned a littleso that one pole would be in…
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