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Elements of Astronomy, Descriptive and Physical; In Which the General Phenomena of the Heavenly Bodies and the Theory of the Tides Are Familiarly Expl

Elements of Astronomy, Descriptive and Physical; In Which the General Phenomena of the Heavenly Bodies and the Theory of the Tides Are Familiarly Expl


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1834 edition. Excerpt: ...minutes sooner in the morning, and may be seen five minutes later at evening, than if no refraction existed; and about 3, minutes every day at a mean rate. Hence, when the Sun is at T below the horizon, a ray of light T I, proceeding from him, comes straight to I, where, falling on the atmosphere it is turned out of its direct, or rectilineal course, and is so bent down to the eye of the observer at D, that the Sun appears in the direction of the refracted ray above the horizon at S, as seen in Plate vi. Figure 1. At the Equator, there will be, equal to two days more sunshine in a year, than without refraction; and the higher the Latitude, the greater the benefit from this property of the atmosphere. MEAN ATMOSPHERICAL REFRACTIONS IN ALTITUDE. How long may the Sun he seen before it rises? What amount of Sun light bi year by refraction 7 Some Hollanders, who wintered in Greenland about a century ago, had the Sun become visible in the south at noon, 17 days earlier than it vmld havedone without refraction. It doubtless continued 17 days later, making the difference of 34 days in the year. When the Sun is at the equinoxes, it shines some distance over both poles by refraction, and the twilight may scarcely cease to be visible even at the solstices. ABERRATION OF LIGHT. Light is more than 8 minutes in coming 95 millions of miles, in which time the Earth has moved more than 8 thousand miles in its orbit. Consequently a ray of light which left the Sun in the direction of the centre of the Earth, when it reaches the orbit of this planet, falls more than 8 thousand miles behind its centre. A ray that left the Sun in the direction of 8 thousand miles forward of the Earth's centre, is that by which we see the Sun when in the meridian. This...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781155022567
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 42
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1155022564
  • Publisher Date: 01 Apr 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 95 gr


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