| Sarah Lawrence Griffin - 1841 - 172 pages
...it : it moves round the earth in twenty-nine days and half, and goes round the sun with the earth." "How long does it take the earth to go round the sun?" " Three hundred and sixty-five days, or a year ; it takes a little longer, but instead of making the... | |
| Marian M. George - Education - 1898 - 470 pages
...sun at the same time. How long does it take the earth to spin round? (Twenty-four hours or one day.) How long does it take the earth to go round the sun? (A year.) How many seasons have we while it is moving around the sun? (When it is on one side of the... | |
| Matthew Fontaine Maury - Geography - 1900 - 134 pages
...the Wet and the Dry. In others there ia one long winter with scarcely any summer. CLIMATE AND ZONES. For .Recitation. Besides turning on its axis, how...moves in a great ring round the sun. How long does it tnke the earth to go round the sun ? The earth goes round the sun once in a year. What changes in the... | |
| D. Brown - Mathematics - 1999 - 408 pages
...Sun and R is the distance from the Sun in astronomical units. a The Earth is 1 astronomical unit from the Sun. How long does it take the Earth to go round the Sun? b Calculate the time it takes for each of the following planets: (i) Jupiter, 5.2 astronomical units... | |
| Worthington Hooker - Readers - 1858 - 188 pages
...shape of the stars ? Why does the earth seem to us not to be round ? Tell about the insect on a globe ? How long does it take the earth to go round the sun ? In what other way does the earth move besides this ? Does the sun really rise and set ? What makes... | |
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