| John Brocklesby - 1872 - 374 pages
...is inclined to the plane of his orbit at an angle of 61° 18'. This quantity is very neariy equal to the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of its orbit, and as the seasons depend in a measure upon this inclination, those of Mars are probably somewhat like... | |
| William Denton - Geology - 1872 - 348 pages
...dark in reference to the cause of the intense cold of the glacial time. It has been suggested that the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of its orbit, which is 23° 28', and is the cause of our present seasons, may have been so different during the glacial... | |
| Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1872 - 328 pages
...of the wonderful results of what has been well called " the simple but stupendous contrivance " of the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of its orbit ;— a contrivance, like the rest of God's works, full of wisdom and goodness, and well adapted to... | |
| Vermont - 1872 - 592 pages
...To what only should the pronoun who refer? 10. Decline I, lady, lie. Geography. 1. What is caused by the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of its orbit? 2. What Ts the width of the North Temperate Zone? 3. Namn in order, beginning at the north, the principal... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1873 - 504 pages
...; 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 change of the seasons. And was it thus with her uncle ? — he who was a... | |
| Sydney Barber Josiah Skertchly - Geology - 1873 - 226 pages
...apsides.1 This line is not always directed to the same point in the heavens, but revolves ; and as the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of its orbit may be considered fixed, the tendency of this movement is to bring about the seasons at all parts of... | |
| John Young - Physical geography - 1873 - 394 pages
...extreme eccentricity of the orbit than when it is move nearly circular. The obliquity of the ecliptic, or the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of its orbit, varies as has been said : at its maximum the polar regions would receive T^ more of heat than they... | |
| Edward Isidore Sears - 1874 - 434 pages
...independent of the direct calorific power of the solar rays, which modify climates, we may mention the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of its orbit. This arrangement in nature gives rise to summer and winter, spring and autumn, in the temperate zones.... | |
| Ralph Stockman Tarr - Geography - 1901 - 422 pages
...of its Axis. — This fact of the unchanging inclination of its Earth's Axis FIG. 10. To illustrate the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of its orbit. axis, as the earth revolves about the sun, may seem a small thing in itself ; but it is really of such... | |
| Alexander Ziwet - Mechanics, Analytic - 1904 - 516 pages
...meridian, which is the true, or apparent, solar day, is not constant throughout the year, owing to the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of its orbit and to the ellipticity of this orbit. The true solar day is thus not well adapted to serve as a unit... | |
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