 ... of September. On this day it slowly sweeps around the sky, with its face half hidden below the icy sea. It still continues to descend ; and, after it has entirely disappeared, it is still so near the horizon that it carries a bright twilight around...  Fourteen Weeks in Descriptive Astronomy - Page 119by Joel Dorman Steele - 1874 - 336 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Astronomy - 1866 - 360 pages
...and in the course of three months it worms its way down to the horizon, which it reaches on the 23rd of September. On this day it slowly sweeps around...circuit. As the sun sinks lower and lower, this twilight gradually grows fainter, till it fades away. On the 2oth of December the sun is 23° 38' below the... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1867 - 400 pages
...and in the course of three months it worms its way down to the horizon, which it reaches on the 23d of September. On this day it slowly sweeps around...twilight grows gradually fainter till it fades away. On the 20th of December the sun is 23 degrees and 38 minutes below the horizon, and this is the midnight... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1867 - 400 pages
...and in the course of three months it worms its way down to the horizon, which it reaches on the 23d of September. On this day it slowly sweeps around...twilight grows gradually fainter till it fades away. On the 20th of December the sun is 23 degrees and 38 minutes below the horizon, and this is the midnight... | |
 | America - 1867 - 356 pages
...and in the course of three months it worms its way down to the horizon, which it reaches on the 23d of September. On this day it slowly sweeps around...descend, and after it has entirely disappeared, it is then so near the horizon that it carries a bright twilight around the heavens in its daily circuit.... | |
 | J. DISTURNELI - 1867 - 344 pages
...and in the course of three months it worms its way down to the horizon, which it reaches on the 23d of September. On this .day it slowly sweeps around...descend, and after it has entirely disappeared, it is then so near the horizon that it carries a bright twilight around the heavens in its daily circuit.... | |
 | Education - 1868 - 604 pages
...and in the course of three months it worms its way down to the horizon, which it reaches on the 23d of September. On this day it slowly sweeps around...twilight grows gradually fainter till it fades away. On the 20th of December the sun is 23 degrees and 38 minutes below the horizon, and this is the midnight... | |
 | Marlborough College (Marlborough, England). Natural History Society - Natural history - 1869 - 450 pages
...and in the course of three months it worms its way down to the herizon which it roaches on the 23rd of September. On this day it slowly sweeps around...and after it has entirely disappeared it is still BO near the herizon that it carries a bright twilight around the heavens in its daily circuit. As the... | |
 | Joel Dorman Steele - Astronomy - 1884 - 360 pages
...and in the course of three months it worms its way down to the horizon, which it reaches on the 22nd of September. On this day it slowly sweeps around...till it fades away. December 21st, the sun is 23|° below the horizon, and this is the midnight of the dark polar winter. From this date, the sun begins... | |
 | Joel Dorman Steele - Astronomy - 1884 - 358 pages
...its way down to the horizon, which it reaches on the 22nd of September. On this day it slowly sweej.a around the sky, with its face half hidden below the...till it fades away. December 21st, the sun is 23^° below the horizon, and this is the midnight of the dark polar winter. From this date, the sun begins... | |
 | Joel Dorman Steele - Astronomy - 1884 - 352 pages
...and in the course of three months it worms its way down to the horizon, which it reaches on the 22nd of September. On this day it slowly sweeps around...icy sea. It still continues to descend, and after it Las entirely disappeared it is still so near the horizon that it carries a bright twilight around the... | |
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