 | Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1881 - 90 Seiten
...When you look up at the sun and the moon and the stars, they seem to be travelling across the heavens, rising in the east and setting in the west. But it is really we that are moving in the opposite direction. The most of you have been in a railway carriage, or in... | |
 | 1925 - 818 Seiten
...libitum. Fortunately, we can neglect these complications for every-day tasks, just as we can look upon the sun as rising in the East and setting in the West, or as we can neglect the problems of the earth's curvature when surveying the potato patch or building... | |
 | Kirtley Fletcher Mather - 1928 - 184 Seiten
...earth upon its axis} have we not been so taught from our youth up? Although we frequently refer to the sun as " rising in the east and setting in the west," we know perfectly well that it does nothing of the sort, that the appearances which led to that assertion... | |
 | Nelva M. Weber - 1976 - 296 Seiten
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 | Arnold B. Arons - 1977 - 424 Seiten
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 | John Herman Randall, Horace Holley - 1927 - 448 Seiten
...earth upon its axis; have we not been so taught from our youth up? Although we frequently refer to the sun as "rising in the east and setting in the west," we know perfectly well that it does nothing of the sort, that the appearances which led to that assertion... | |
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Although we frequently refer to the sun as " rising in the east and setting in the west... 