 | John Orr (Unitarian minister.) - 1857 - 518 pages
...forces ; celestial dynamics, by the power of gravitation ; the sweet vicissitude of the seasons, by the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of its orbit ; the architecture of a plant, by electricity and other influences. This principle, in all its unphilosophical... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Astronomy - 1858 - 454 pages
...next endeavor to explain to you the phenom ena of the Seasons. These depend on two causes ; first, the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of its orbit ; and, secondly, to the circumstance, that the axis always remains parallel to itself. Imagine to yourself... | |
 | Alfred Holbrook - Teaching - 1860 - 486 pages
...light and shade, or into day and night. THE CHANGE OF SEASONS. The change of seasons is produced by the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of its orbit, as shown by the inclination of the axis of the globe. Illustration. The change of the seasons may be... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - American fiction - 1860 - 450 pages
...what it saya about the seasons, child." " It says, sir, that the changes in the seasons are owing to ' the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of its orbit.' I do not exactly understand what that means, uncle.1 " No, — it 's not as clear as it might be. —... | |
 | Cornelius Sowle Cartée - Physical geography - 1861 - 356 pages
...all places on the same meridian, and midnight to all places on the opposite meridian. 126. Owing to the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of its orbit, certain portions of its surface are brought successively under the vertical rays of the sun, the limits... | |
 | Franklin C. Brownell - Scientific apparatus and instruments - 1861 - 200 pages
...the horizon. These two causes produce the warm season, or Summer, and are themselves the result of the inclination of the Earth's axis to the plane of its orbit, and the invariable parallelism of this inclination in all parts of the Earth's orbit. This inclination... | |
 | Archibald Hastie DICK - Mathematical geography - 1863 - 264 pages
...(148.) In order farther to explain the differences of the length of the solar day we will now consider the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of its orbit. This inclination is an important cause of the differences in the length of the solar day. Were the... | |
 | George Chaplin Child- Chaplin - 1866 - 272 pages
...this relative nearness or distance of the sun ought naturally to produce. Such a cause is found in the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of its orbit. The effect of this arrangement can be easily illustrated by an impromptu orrery. Let a card placed... | |
 | Education - 1864 - 408 pages
...produced, which may here be done, an explanation of what is meant by the plane of the earth's orbit, and of the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of its orbit as it revolves around the sun, will be necessary. This will be rendered comparatively easy, however,... | |
 | Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club - Herefordshire (England) - 1898 - 534 pages
...production of a glacial epoch ; but since the publication of these views, certain facts as to the effect of the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of its orbit have been pointed nut by Sir R. Ball in a book lately published by him, which tend to greatly strengthen... | |
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evidence of things not seen," in the fulness of Divine grace ; and was profound on this, the greatest concern of human life, while unable even to comprehend how the " inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of its orbit" could be the cause of the... 
