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Page 115
... north temperate zone and spring in the south temperate zone . The days and ... pole , and if the sun's rays in like manner could leave a line of golden ... north pole , and it is there the midnight of the long six months polar night ...
... north temperate zone and spring in the south temperate zone . The days and ... pole , and if the sun's rays in like manner could leave a line of golden ... north pole , and it is there the midnight of the long six months polar night ...
Page 118
... north pole .- " To a person standing at the north pole , the sun appears to sweep horizontally around the sky every twenty - four hours , without any perceptible variation in its distance from the horizon . It is 118 THE SOLAR SYSTEM .
... north pole .- " To a person standing at the north pole , the sun appears to sweep horizontally around the sky every twenty - four hours , without any perceptible variation in its distance from the horizon . It is 118 THE SOLAR SYSTEM .
Page 120
... north and south the climate would melt away into temperate spring , and , lastly , into the rigors of a perpetual ... pole , when he would halt for a time and then slowly return in an inverse manner . In our own latitude , the sun would make ...
... north and south the climate would melt away into temperate spring , and , lastly , into the rigors of a perpetual ... pole , when he would halt for a time and then slowly return in an inverse manner . In our own latitude , the sun would make ...
Page 121
... north pole describes a small circle in the starry vault twice 23 ° 28 ′ in diameter . To illustrate this , in the cut we suppose that after a series of years the position of the earth's equator has changed from eƒh to g Kl . The ...
... north pole describes a small circle in the starry vault twice 23 ° 28 ′ in diameter . To illustrate this , in the cut we suppose that after a series of years the position of the earth's equator has changed from eƒh to g Kl . The ...
Page 122
Joel Dorman Steele. of the earth itself . The position of the north pole in the heavens is therefore gradually but almost insen- sibly changing . It is now distant from the north polar star about 10. It will continue to approach Fig . 32 ...
Joel Dorman Steele. of the earth itself . The position of the north pole in the heavens is therefore gradually but almost insen- sibly changing . It is now distant from the north polar star about 10. It will continue to approach Fig . 32 ...
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