 | Marcius Willson - Object-teaching - 1863 - 356 pages
...28'." In Webster's large dictionary it is erroneously stated, under the word "inclination," that "the inclination of the axis of the earth to the plane of the ecliptic is 23° 28'." On the contrary, its axis inclines 23° 28' from a line perpendicular to the plane of... | |
 | Thomas Stackhouse - 1869 - 920 pages
...the continued intense heat of the sun ; and the great heat of the sun, by the perpendicular position of the axis of the earth to the plane of the ecliptic. But allowing the position of the earth to be what he imagines, 3 yet it seems difficult to conceive,... | |
 | Benjamin Graf von Rumford - Charities - 1870 - 608 pages
...seasons, are produced in a manner at the same time the most simple and the most stupendous (by the inclination of the axis of the earth to the plane of the ecliptic), yet this mechanical contrivance alone would not have been sufficient (as I shall endeavour to show)... | |
 | John Townsend Trowbridge, Lucy Larcom, Gail Hamilton - Children's literature - 1870 - 884 pages
...farther side of the earth) and will be lighted on its N. and W. faces. — HC A nthony. Owing to the inclination of the axis of the earth to the plane of the earth's orbit, the circle of illumination varies. When the sun is on the Tropic of Cancer, the circle... | |
 | George Edward Ellis - 1871 - 736 pages
...great First Cause which brought all things into existence." Besides that mechanical contrivance, the inclination of the axis of the earth to the plane of the ecliptic, — the simple but stupendous means which causes the changes of the seasons, — other agencies are... | |
 | George Edward Ellis - Nutrition - 1871 - 750 pages
...great First Cause which brought all things into existence." Besides that mechanical contrivance, the inclination of the axis of the earth to the plane of the ecliptic, — the simple but stupendous means which causes the changes of the seasons, — other agencies are... | |
 | Aleksander Chodźko - English language - 1874 - 1022 pages
...obliquity of a line. — ekliplyki, the obliquity of the ecliptic. — osi ziemskie} do ekliptyki, the inclination of the axis of the earth to the plane of the ecliptic. = crooked back, stooping posture. POCHYfcY,A,E, sloping, slanting; inclined; crooked, bent down, stooping.... | |
 | Strother Ancrum Smith - Birds - 1877 - 302 pages
...the crust of the earth, supposed to .have been originally in a molten state, or by a change in the inclination of the axis of the earth to the plane of the ecliptic. But during each geological epoch, the climate of a place can depend only on (i) its latitude, (2) its... | |
 | Encyclopedias - 1888 - 718 pages
...periodically. G. machine, intended to represent how the changes ol seasons, the days, &c., are caused by the inclination of the axis of the earth to the plane of the ecliptic, at an angle of 66J°, and how the axis, by remaining parallel to itself in all points of its path round... | |
 | William Dwight Whitney - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1889 - 288 pages
...changes of the seasons, the increase and decrease of the length of the day, etc., are caused by the Inclination of the axis of the earth to the plane of the ecliptic at an angle of Щ°, and how the axis, by remaining parallel to Itself in all points of its path round... | |
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... to the inclination of the axis of the earth to the plane of the ecliptic, and partly to the different positions in which a spectator is placed in different zones of the globe. 
