The Study of Astronomy, adapted to the capacities of youth / In twelve familiar dialogues, between a tutor and his pupil: explaining the general phænomena of the heavenly bodies, the theory of the tides, &c.

by teacher of astronomy John Stedman

Tutor. Keep your position, and desire some friend to pour the water gently into the bason so as not to remove the money, and you will clearly distinguish it. Now, if you call the edge of the bason the horizon, the water the atmosphere, and the shilling the moon, is it not clear that you will see it above the horizon, when it is really below it?

Pupil. I think so, Sir.

Tutor. Well, try the experiment, and let me know the result when I next see you.

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[13]. The hourly motion under the equator is 900 miles.

[14]. Dr. Herschell says that several of the fixed stars revolve on their axes.

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DIALOGUE IX.

Tutor.

I presume, Sir, you have made the experiment I recommended to you.