 | Levi Washburn Leonard - New Hampshire - 1827 - 398 pages
...of the earth on its axis, every place is successively brought into light and immersed in darkness. If the axis of the earth were always perpendicular to the plane of the ecliptic, the days would where be of the same length, and just as long as the DAY AOT» NIGHT.... | |
 | Levi Washburn Leonard - Science - 1830 - 350 pages
...of the earth on its axis, every place is successively brought into light and immersed in darkness. If the axis of the earth were always perpendicular to the plane of the ecliptic, the days would every where be of the same length, and just as long as the BAY AND NIGHT.... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - Astronomy - 1838 - 160 pages
...its regular diurnal motion, every place is successively brought into light and immersed in darkness. If the axis of the earth were always perpendicular to the plane of the ecliptic, the days •would everywhere be of the same length, and just as long as the nights. For... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - Agriculture - 1857 - 508 pages
...its regular diurnal motion, every place is successively brought into light and immersed in darkness. If the axis of the earth were always perpendicular to the plane of the ecliptic, the days would every where be of the same length, and just as long as the nights. For... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - Children's literature - 1908 - 664 pages
...inclination of the axis of the earth is the very thing that gives rise to our change of seasons. In fact, if the axis of the earth were always perpendicular to the plane of its orbit, people in any given locality would always have the one season. If it was a terrific summer,... | |
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NIGHT. 101 nights. For an inhabitant at the equator, and one on the same meridian towards the poles, would come into the light at the same time, and, on the other side, would immerge into darkness at the... 