The Artisan, or, Mechanic's instructor : containing a popular, comprehensive and systematic view of the following sciences ... also biographical notices of eminent scientific men, enriched by portraits : with many interesting and valuable articles relating to the mechanical and useful arts : the whole intended as a companion to the institutes (1825)
Carey, George G · London : Printed for William Cole · leaf 355
THE ARTISAN. 331 the earth, as she moves in her orbit n z„ &un’s light from falling on the other. — See while the earth moves in the ecliptic rq, the following figure, which represents the ipoon passing through the dark shadow of … seldom the case ; and, of course, very few The interposition of t e moon between central eclipses of the sun have taken place |jhe sun and the earth produces an eclipse since the creation of the world.* But the of the sun ; and the interposition of the earth between the moon and the sun, so section…
