 | J. Goldsmith - 1811 - 184 pages
...upon it in their natural order and situation. The eye is supposed to be placed in the centre. 271- As the terrestrial globe, by turning on its axis,...globe, by turning on its axis, represents the apparent motion of the heavens. 27'2. The zodiac is an imaginary belt round the heavens, about sixteen degrees... | |
 | George Adams - Astronomy - 1812 - 586 pages
...be supposed, that the celestial globe is so just a representation of the heavens as the terrestrial globe is of the earth ; because here the stars are...circle which crosses the equator in an angle of about 23- deg. and the angle is called the obliquity of the ecliptic; This circle is divided into twelve... | |
 | Jacob Willetts - Geography - 1815 - 228 pages
...natural order and situation. The eye l» supposed to be piaccd in the centre. As the terrestrial globe,by turning on its axis, represents the real diurnal motion...globe, by turning on its axis, represents the apparent motion of the heavens. The zodiac is an imaginary belt round the heavens, of about sixteen Degrees... | |
 | Geography - 1820 - 352 pages
...drawn upon it, in their natural order and situation. The eye is supposed to be placed in the centre. As the terrestrial globe, by turning on its axis,...; so the celestial globe, by turning on its axis, represent s the apparent motion of the heavens. The Zodiac is an imaginary belt round the heavens,... | |
 | Daniel Adams - Geography - 1821 - 354 pages
...drawn upon it, in their natural order and situation. The eye is supposed to be placed in the centre. As the terrestrial globe by turning on its axis represents...globe, by turning on its axis, represents the apparent motion of the heavens. The Zodiac is an imaginary belt round the heavens, of about sixteen degrees... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - Geography - 1821 - 256 pages
...made in the places of the stars, the real stars in the heavens would be seen through those holes. llo. As the terrestrial globe, by turning on" its axis,...globe, by turning on its axis, represents the apparent motion of the heavens. 1 16. The zodiac is an imaginary belt around the heavens, of about sixteen degrees... | |
 | L. Ring - 1831 - 200 pages
...their natural order and situation ; and as the terrestrial globe, by turning on its axis represents the diurnal motion of the earth, so the celestial globe, by turning on its axis, shows the apparent motion of the heavens. Ott. The twelve signs of the zodiac have been already noticed.... | |
 | Joseph Emerson Worcester - Classical geography - 1844 - 362 pages
...the eclipse is visible to every part of the earth that in now above the horizon. THE CELESTIAL GLOBE. As the Terrestrial Globe, by turning on its axis,...motion of the earth, so the Celestial Globe, by turning or its axis, represents the apparent motion of the heavens. The nominal points of Aries and Libra are... | |
 | Joseph Emerson Worcester - Classical geography - 1844 - 356 pages
...the horizon. THE CELESTIAL GLOBE. As the Terrestrial Globe, by turning on its axis, represents ihe real diurnal motion of the earth, so the Celestial Globe, by turning or its axis, represents the apparent motion of the heavens. The nominal puints of Aries and Libra are'called... | |
 | Rev. J. GOLDSMITH (pseud. [i.e. Sir Richard Phillips.]), sir Richard Phillips - 1868 - 184 pages
...conies above the horizon, and the index will show the time of rising. II.—THE CELESTIAL GLOBE. 2. As the terrestrial globe, by turning on its axis,...globe, by turning on its axis, represents the apparent motion of the heavens. 1. The Celestial Globe is an artificial representation of the heavens, having... | |
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As the terrestrial globe by turning on its axis represents the real diurnal motion of the earth ; so the celestial globe, by turning on its axis, represents the apparent motion of the heavens. 