The Story of the Peasant-Boy Philosopher: Or, "a Child Gathering Pebbles On ...
The Story of the Peasant-Boy Philosopher: Or, "a Child Gathering Pebbles On ...
Mayhew, Henry, 1812-1887
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I- understand quite well that if we fancy the earth to move from west to east, it will account for the stars seeming to go the contrary wayr But, if that's the case, how can the motion of the earth make the sun appear to move in two difierent directions at the same time?" " Why, lad," responded the sailor, " you must bear in mind that the earth not only turns round on its axis like your peg-top when it's spinning, but it moves round the sun as well, just in tho same tnanner as your top sometime...s does when it describes a circle as it skims over the ground. Now the two motions of the earth — its daily motion round its axis, and its yearly motion round the sun — are both performed in the same direction — viz., from west to east^ or contrary to the way the hands of a dock move ; so that when the earth is at any one part of the ediptic,. the sun will appear to be in the opposite part of it, and while the earth is 376 TSAVELLINO AT THE RATE OF travelling in one direction through the one half of the circle, the.
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