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Have you ever wondered why the Earth is tilted on its axis? This book presents the Reason for the Inclination of the Earth. "The earth has two principal motions, one of revolution about the sun, the other of rotation upon an axis. The revolution about the sun is accomplished in 3651/4 days at an average speed of nineteen miles per second, or thirty-three times the speed of the swiftest modern projectile. The rotation upon its axis is accomplished in twenty-four sidereal hours, and since the equatorial circumference of the earth is nearly 25,000 miles, a point on the earth's equator has a speed of rotation of over one thousand miles per hour. In form the earth is an oblate spheroid, a flattened sphere, and the axis about which it rotates coincides very nearly with the shortest axis of the body. If a plane be passed through the center of the earth perpendicular to the axis upon which it rotates, not perpendicular to the shortest axis, this plane will cut the surface in a circle which is known as the equator. One of the two coordinates by which the location of a place on the earth's surface is designated is its distance north or south of the equator-measured in degrees, not in miles-and this coordinate is called latitude..."
Excerpt from Studies Upon the Inclination of the Earth's Axis For example, the sun and all the planets, on this theory, ought to move in one direction, both on their axes and in their orbits; and so they do pretty nearly. Yet, when accuracy of statement is required, we are told that they all vary, the direction of no two being exactly the same. The axial motion of the earth, for example, crosses the orbital at an angle of 231/2; and, with variations in the angle of crossing, the same is true of all. The orbits ought to lie in the plane of the solar equator; but they do not: nor do any two of their planes coincide with each other. Not one planet has its axis perpendicular to its own orbit; although, according to the theory, they all ought. The orbits, moreover, ought to be circular; but all are more or less eccentric. All the satellites ought to be in the planes of the equators of their primaries; but I doubt if one is really so, while Saturn's eighth satellite is about 12, and our moon nearly 181/2, out of place. To crown it all, the moons of Uranus and Neptune actually go backward. If Laplace's theory be true there must be some way to account for these apparent contradictions. My attention was drawn to this subject nearly two years ago; and the conclusions at which I arrived, as sell as the reasons on which they are founded, I embodied in my "Cosmology," an essay which forms Part III of The Miracle of To-Day. I therein showed that a key to all these perplexing peculiarities is found in the addition to the Nebular Hypothesis of one condition, to wit, that in the gas-like mass from which the solar system was evolved certain elevations or upheavals occurred from time to time, rising and subsiding like waves upon a sea. Such movements seem to be normal in our system. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
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