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... position . In what are now the temperate regions of the globe there was one continuous season , similar in climate and length of day to what is experienced at the vernal equinox , when the Sun is for a few days on the equator . There ...
... position . In what are now the temperate regions of the globe there was one continuous season , similar in climate and length of day to what is experienced at the vernal equinox , when the Sun is for a few days on the equator . There ...
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... position of the Earth , with her axis at right angles to her orbit , is one which may be regarded as being ill adapted for the support and maintenance of life on her surface , just as her present position is the best that can be ...
... position of the Earth , with her axis at right angles to her orbit , is one which may be regarded as being ill adapted for the support and maintenance of life on her surface , just as her present position is the best that can be ...
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... position of the Earth's axis . One of the principal causes which baffled astro- nomers in their endeavours to determine the paral- lax of the fixed stars was a phenomenon called the ' Aberration of Light , ' which was discovered and ...
... position of the Earth's axis . One of the principal causes which baffled astro- nomers in their endeavours to determine the paral- lax of the fixed stars was a phenomenon called the ' Aberration of Light , ' which was discovered and ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE I A SHORT HISTORICAL SKETCH OF ASTRONOMY | 1 |
ASTRONOMY IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY | 45 |
MILTONS ASTRONOMICAL KNOWLEDGE | 81 |
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