 | G. Bartlett - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1850 - 264 pages
...feet higher than the waters of the Mediterranean to the west of that isthmus — an riled produced by the motion of the Earth on its axis from west to east, and influencing the whole breadth of the Pacific waters, directing its equatorial currents from east... | |
 | David Williams - English literature - 1858 - 388 pages
...in respect of itself, an apparent elevation. Q. What causes the rising and selting of the sun?—A. The motion of the earth on its axis from west to east every twenty-four hours. Q. Which are the primary?—A. Mercury; Venus; the Earth;.the Moon; Mars;... | |
 | David Thomas Ansted - Geography - 1868 - 168 pages
...the earth were still, is converted into an east wind, or nearly so, towards the equator, because of the motion of the earth on its axis from west to east. At the poles this motion is nothing; on the borders of the temperate zone it is only a few hundred... | |
 | Massachusetts Homoeopathic Medical Society - Homeopathy - 1878 - 1038 pages
...is a fact commonly known that the sun lies to the southward more or less, and consequently, during the motion of the earth on its axis from west to east, shines most powerfully against the northwestern sky in the morning, and at noon directly north, and... | |
 | David Thomas Ansted - Physical geography - 1877 - 194 pages
.... H were still, is converted into an east wind, or nearly 1 i' so, towards the equator, because of the motion of the earth on its axis from west to east. At the poles this motion is nothing; on the borders of the tempe1 " ' rate zone it is only a few hundred... | |
 | Homeopathy - 1877 - 602 pages
...is a fact commonly known that the sun lies to the southward more or less, and consequently, during the motion of the earth on its axis from west to east, shines most powerfully against the northwestern sky in the morning, and at noon directly north, and... | |
 | John Richard Langler - 1879 - 170 pages
...left. The sun rises in the east, and sets in the west. The rising and setting of the sun are due to the motion of the Earth on its axis from west to east. The sun itself does not move in the heavens from east to west, as it seems to do every day. LATITUDE... | |
 | Anthropology - 1888 - 414 pages
...to the conclusion that the seeming motions of the stars from east to west are indeed but measures of the motion of the earth on its axis from west to east. To all sensuous perceptions material things disappear and are annihilated — something becomes nothing.... | |
 | 1882 - 588 pages
...What appears to be the daily motion oi the sun, from east to west, is onfy apparent; and is caused by the motion of the earth on its axis, from west to east. The earth passes around the sun over ninety millions of miles distant from it, requiring a year to... | |
 | Education - 1897 - 362 pages
...GEOG RAPHY.— ANSWERS. 1. (a) The flattening at the poles causes a slight difference in length. (b) The motion of the earth on its axis from west to east. (c) On the direction in which the sun's rays strike it. The more nearly perpendicular the rays are,... | |
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It is a fact commonly known that the sun lies to the southward more or less, and consequently, during the motion of the earth on its axis from west to east... 