The Sea-Earth Globe by Albert Smith

Author:Albert Smith [Smith, Albert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B07B6413KN
Goodreads: 49234584
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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B ut as E uclid proves, when two angles of a triangle are T he focussed Im age, therefore, would be only about two equal, the sides subtending, or opposite them , are also equal ; m iles high, a distance equal to C B , the base of a right-angled hence the base B C is equal to the perpendicular C S.

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other words, the height of the sun above the flat earth is H ad anyone ascended in a balloon, the focus of the light equal to the distance of B ordeaux from the equator in A frica, w ould have receded upw ards, as a rainbow recedes when an prob ably less, but certain ly not more than, about 2,700

observer tries to approach it, the height of the bow depending m iles 1 Q .E .D .

upon the observer’s position and th at of the sun.

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the sun’s true distance we need a clear sk y when the sun is on the meridian at noon.

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