 em to be, now, almost as useful as almanacs. Read what it says 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.  Cooper's Novels - Sida 64efter James Fenimore Cooper - 1852Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | 1794 - 408 sidor
...Sun. The d'fivicnt fealons of the year, with all the delightful varieties thereof, are found to be owing to the inclination of the Earth's axis to the plane of the Ecliptic, in which 6 E 8 8 2 8 3 8 3 3 57 3 57 the Sun always appears to move; bung 66 degrees... | |
 | 1801 - 574 sidor
...this nutation, of which the existence and quantity were first ascertained by Bradley. He found that the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of its orbit, which is about 23^ degrees, is not constant, but varies several seconds backwards and forwards, and... | |
 | Benjamin Workman - 1809 - 218 sidor
...pertains to the celeilial fphere alone. Its oblique polition to the equator (being a conlequence of the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of its orbit,) is the principal caufe of the variety of the feafons : for if the equator and ecliptic were coincident,... | |
 | Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1810 - 458 sidor
...considerable change in the annual heat or cold of a particular country. We have no reason to suppose that the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of its orbit has ever been varied ; but strong; evidence to' the contrary. If this inclination has always been the... | |
 | John Lathrop - 1812 - 218 sidor
...at the equator are always equal. Thus, the different seasons of the year are clearlyaccounted for by the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of its orbit, combined with the parallel motion of this axis. 282. The motion of the sun, moon,, and stars, from... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - 1815 - 388 sidor
...behind the sun. Tutor. If this difference between time measured by the dial and clock depended only on the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of its orbit, the clocks and dial ought to be together at the equinoxes, and also on the 21st of June and the 21st... | |
 | John Bonnycastle - 1816 - 490 sidor
...the circle which is the boundary of light and darkness.—All this beautiful variety is occasioned by the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of its orbit. " Some say he bid his angels turn askance The poles of earth twice ten degrees and more From the sun's... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - 1821 - 366 sidor
...more conspicuous by its being described on the same globe; and the obliquity of the ecliptic shows the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of its orbit. But to return to fig. 2. plate VIII. The spaces between the several parallel circles OB the terrestrial... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1825 - 508 sidor
...wire, t», is screwed, and its upper end is bent 23»° from 'the perpendicular, corresponding with the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of its orbit. On the bent part of the wire is fitted a brass collar (but invisible in the engraving), [from .the... | |
 | Temple Chevallier - 1827 - 454 sidor
...consequently the comfort and existence of all beings upon the surface of the earth, depends also upon the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of its orbit continuing nearly invariable. In order to effect this, the axis of rotation must be a permanent axis.... | |
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