 | 1825 - 616 pages
...but we think it may be perhaps more easily understood from the following illustration. Let us suppose a line to join the eye of the observer and the sun; let rays issue from the sun in all possible directions^ and let us suppose that planes pass through these... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - 1832 - 656 pages
...perfection, and has never been observed until within a few years. In order to explain it, let us suppose a line to join the eye of the observer and the sun....through which there pass all the septa of the former, and all the planes passing through the meridians of the latter. An eye, therefore, situated in this... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - 1832 - 650 pages
...perfection, and has never been observed until within a few years. In order to explain it, let us suppose a line to join the eye of the observer and the sun....orange, or the axis of the earth, through which there pat-s all the septa of the former, and all the planes passing through the meridians of die latter.... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1832 - 620 pages
...perfection, and has never been observed until within a few years. In order to explain it, let us suppose a line to join the eye of the observer and the sun....joining the eye of the observer and the sun, which will In • their common intersection, like the axis of on orange, or the axis of the earth, through which... | |
 | Francis Lieber - 1832 - 632 pages
...perfection, and has never been observed until within a few years. In order to explain it, let us suppose a line to join the eye of the observer and the sun....directions, and let us suppose that planes pass through diese beams, and through the line joining the eye of the observer and the sun, which will be their... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - 1835 - 620 pages
...perfection, and has never been observed until within a few years. In order to explain it, let us suppose a line to join the eye of the observer and the sun....through which there pass all the septa of the former, and all the planes passing through the meridians of the latter. An eye, therefore, situated in this... | |
 | Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford - 1837 - 528 pages
...i'iection, and has never been observed until within a few years. In order to explain it, let us suppose a line to join the eye of the observer and the sun....beams issue from the sun in all possible directions, ¡ind let us suppose that planes pass through these beams, and through the line joining the eye of... | |
 | Popular encyclopedia - 1846 - 1018 pages
...has never been observed until within a few years. In order to explain it, let us suppose a line in join the eye of the observer and the sun. Let beams...through which there pass all the septa of the former, and all the planes passing through the meridians of the latter. An eye, therefore, situated in this... | |
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... were about to rise in the east. This phenomenon is rarely seen in perfection, and has never been observed until within a few years. In order to explain it, let us suppose a line to join the eye of the observer and the sun. Let beams issue from the... 