...countries and connects two seas or. oceans, as the straits of Gibraltar, the straits of Magellan.* The axis of the earth is an imaginary line passing through the centre, and meeting the surface in two opposite points. The poles of the earth are the two extremities of its...

...made in the Christian era, as all the other planets were known loug before that period. I DEF. II. The Axis of the earth is an imaginary line passing through the centre, about which its diurnal revolution is performed. DEF. III. The Poles of the earth are the extremities...

...real . globe of the earth. 42. The diurnal motion of the terrestrial globe is from west to east. 43. The axis of the earth is an imaginary line passing through the centre of it, on which it is supposed to turn, and about which all the heavenly bodies appear to have a diurnal...

...again at the place from whence they departed. DEFINITIONS RELATING TO THE TERRESTRIAL GLOBE. _, Obs. The axis of the earth is an imaginary line passing through the centre north and south, about which the diurnal revolution is performed. It is represented by the line between AB, fig. 62....

...at the place from whence they departed. DEFINITIONS ABLATING TO THE TERRESTRIAL GLOBE. Obs. The axil of the earth is an imaginary line passing through the centre north and south, about which the diurnal revolution is performed. It is represented by the line between AB, fig. 62....

...parts. The norllr " ' part is called the northern hemisphere, the south part, the southern hemisphere. The axis of the earth is an imaginary line, passing through the centre of the earth from north to south. The northern extremity of the earth, is called the north pole, and...

...supposed to be situated in the centre of it, and viewing the stars in the concave surface. A 2 w 2 5 3. The Axis OF THE EARTH is an imaginary line passing through the centre of it, upon which it is supposed to turn, and about which all the heavenly bodies appear to have a...

...alternations of day and night ; the other, round the Sun, a complete revolution of which constitutes our year. The axis of the Earth is an imaginary line, passing through the centre, upon which it daily turns, as it revolves about the Sun. This axis is not perpendicular to the orbit...

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...figures on both globes, are necessarily imaginary. DEFINITIONS RELATING TO THE TERRESTRIAL GLOBE. LXXIX. The Axis of the Earth is an imaginary line passing through the centre north and south, about which the diurnal revolution is represented by the line between A and B, fig. Id Fig. 10. LXXX....