 | Hamilton Lanphere Smith - Astronomy - 1848 - 336 pages
...appear to be strictly the case, as we cannot represent the star removed to a sufficient distance. The inclination of the axis of the earth to the plane of the sun's apparent path, is the cause of all the variety of the seasons ; of the differing lengths of the... | |
 | Hiram Mattison - Astronomy - 1849 - 304 pages
...south, and his apparent passage through the plane of the equinoctial, twice a year, are caused by the inclination of the axis of the earth to the plane of the ecliptic, and her revolution around the sun. What we have here said will serve more fully to illustrate Lesson 25,... | |
 | Thomas Dick - Educational sociology - 1850 - 586 pages
...motions and general aspects of the sun in different parts of the earth, which are owing partly 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. It... | |
 | Thomas Dick - Astronomy - 1851 - 892 pages
...motions and general aspect* of the sun in different parts of the earth, which are owing partly 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. It... | |
 | Alexander Chodźko - 1851 - 540 pages
...obliquity ol a line. — ekliptyki, the obliquity of the ecliptic. — osi ziemsktej do ekliptyki, the inclination of the axis of the earth to the plane of the ecliptic.-— crooked back, stooping posture. POCHYtY,A,E,sloping, slanting; inclined; crooked, bent down, stooping.... | |
 | Francis Lieber - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1851 - 618 pages
...time than at others, so that the solar days cannot be equal. Another circumstance, dependent upon the inclination of the axis of the earth to the plane of the ecliptic, is also to be taken into the account. The apparent solar time, therefore, is distinguished from mean... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1857 - 878 pages
...motions and general aspects of the sun in different parts of the earth, which are owing partly 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. It... | |
 | Christopher Irving - 1858 - 140 pages
...in which the ecliptic is situate. Q. What causes the difference in the seasons of the year ? A. The inclination of the axis of the earth to the plane of the ecliptic. If the earth's axis were perpendicular to the ecliptic the seasons would always be the same, and the... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1858 - 474 pages
...sun is subject to an annual fluctuation between 234° north and 23i° south, as a consequence of the inclination of the axis of the earth to the plane of the orbit in which it moves. He will have learnt little indeed if he does not know that this is one of... | |
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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. 
