 | Henry Grattan Guinness - Bible - 1879 - 756 pages
...securing that uniformity of solar influence, which is needful for the continuation of terrestrial life. The inclination of the axis of the earth, to the plane of her orbit, for instance, is at present undergoing a steady, though very slow diminution. Were this... | |
 | Education - 1880 - 754 pages
...edge of the horizon . It can be very readily seen from Fig. 2 how the change of seasons is caused by the inclination of the axis of the earth to the plane of its orbit ; and that, if this axis were perpendicular to the plane AB, the sun would be always overhead... | |
 | Ward, Lock and co, ltd - 1884 - 968 pages
...the sun is higher in the heavens in summer than in winter. This we should soon see was the result of the inclination of the axis of the earth to the plane of its orbit. Fig. 3 shows this at once. We see the earth drawn as it is placed with regard to the sun... | |
 | California State Mining Bureau - Geology - 1885 - 256 pages
...make it easier to sail westward than to return. Hence, "Westward the star of empire takes its way." The inclination of the axis of the earth to the plane of its orbit causes the change of seasons, and renders one part of the earth more desirable than another... | |
 | Connecticut. Board of Education - 1886 - 386 pages
...the topics suggested by the study of a particular river, naming it. n. 1. (a) What is the effect of the inclination of the axis of the earth to the plane of its orbit ? (6) If the inclination were increased what effect would it have ? 2. What are the principal... | |
 | Connecticut. State Board of Education - Education - 1886 - 374 pages
...the topics suggested by the study of a particular river, naming it. n. 1. (a) What is the effect of the inclination of the axis of the earth 'to the plane of its orbit ? (6) If the inclination were increased what effect would it have ? 2. What are the principal... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - Education - 1888 - 300 pages
...the variation must increase with increase of the eccentricity of the orbit, and with the increase of the inclination of the axis of the earth to the plane of its orbit. Our study of astronomy teaches us that the perihelion and aphelion have an annual motion... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1888 - 310 pages
...the variation must increase with increase of the eccentricity of the orbit, and with the increase of the inclination of the axis of the earth to the plane of its orbit. Our study of astronomy teaches us that the perihelion and aphelion have an annual motion... | |
 | Alexander Chodźko - English language - 1890 - 938 pages
...obliquity of a line. — ckliptyki, the obliquity of th« ecliptic. — osi zienuktej do ekliptyte, the inclination of the axis of the earth to the plane of the ecliptic. =. crooked back, stoopIng posture. ••- ~ .«•;> • PpCHYtY,A,B, sloping, slanting; inclined;... | |
 | Great Britain. Committee on Education - Education - 1894 - 1136 pages
...The Year and the Seasons.—Movement of the earth in its orbit round the sun. Effect of the constant inclination of the axis of the earth to the plane of the orbit. The shadow of the earth, its form in space, and how it produces eclipses of the moon. The shadow... | |
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The true cause of the variation of the seasons consists in the inclination of the axis of the earth to the plane of its orbit; or, in other words, to the ecliptic. 
