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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. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ... The earth is represented at four successive points in its orbit about the sun. Since the axis of the earth is virtually unchangeable in its direction in space (leaving out of account the slow effects of the precession of the equinoxes), it results that at one time of the year, the north pole is inclined toward the sun and at the opposite time of the year away from it. It attains its greatest inclination sunward at the summer solstice, then the line between day and night lies 230 beyond the north pole, so that the whole area within the arctic circle is in perpetual daylight. The days are longer than the nights throughout the northern hemisphere, but the day becomes longer in proportion to the night as the arctic circle is approached, and beyond that the sun is continually above the horizon. In the southern hemisphere exactly the reverse occurs. When the earth has advanced to the autumn equinox, the axis is inclined neither toward nor away from the sun. The latter is then perpendicular over the equator and day and night are of equal length all over the earth. When the earth reaches the winter solstice the north pole is inclined away from the sun, and now it issummerinthe southern hemisphere. At the vernal equinox again there is no-inclination of the axis either toward or away from the sun, and once more day and night are everywhere equal. A little study of this diagram will show why on the equator day and night are always of equal length. ness. You will also observe that the ratio of length of the light to the darkness is greater the nearer the point lies to the pole, and that when it is within a certain distance of the pole, corresponding with the elevation of the lamp above the equator, it lies in continual light--in other words, within...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781230223926
  • Publisher: Theclassics.Us
  • Publisher Imprint: Theclassics.Us
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 48
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1230223924
  • Publisher Date: 12 Sep 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 104 gr


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