The world machine. The first phase: the cosmic mechanism (1907)
Snyder, Carl, 1869-1946 · London, New York [etc.] Longmans, Green, and co. · leaf 87
nditionis intensified. So, when the sun is at the extreme point of its northernadvance, its summer halt or solstice, as at S in the figure,its rays will cover the northern pole ; from W, the wintersolstice, they will leave it in the dark. As this shifting of thesuns position from one point to the… … Fig. I. JSJote.—It is needless to say that this scheme is based on the idea thatthe sun circles the earth, as it so doubtless appeared to Bion. be equal nights and days all over the earth, save at the ex-tremities of the poles. This is our equi-noctes, period of storms. Here, then, was a…
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