 | Child rearing - 1840 - 460 pages
...the mean time they observed that the sun, by a motion peculiar to it, receded, from day to day, from certain stars, and took its place under others, always advancing towards the east. As they found that twelve revolutions of the moon approximated to one revolution of the sun,... | |
 | Thomas Dick - Educational sociology - 1850 - 586 pages
...the mean time they observed that the sun, by a motion peculiar to it, receded, from day to day, from certain stars, and took its place under others, always advancing towards the east. As they found that twelve revolutions of the moon approximated to one revolution of the sun,... | |
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... the heavens, and to divide the year into equal portions, of which the following is a condensed description : They every day saw the sun and the whole heavens turning round from east to west. In the mean time they observed that the sun, by a motion... 