The world machine. The first phase: the cosmic mechanism (1907)
Snyder, Carl, 1869-1946 · London, New York [etc.] Longmans, Green, and co. · leaf 95
mer station, where it willseem to stand still for a few days, then again recede ; the sol-stitium of the Latins. If I can find out just how far to thesouth this point lies, it is evident that I hold in my hands thesolution of the problem. I have only to take out my watch,or my jack-knife, hang it… … Fig. It is evident enough that, if the earth is round and the sunat a very great distance, the angle that is marked A wiU beto all intents the same as if it were taken from the centre ofthe earth. But this means that the angle will cut out the samearc in the circle of the sky as, from the centre of…
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