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THE CELESTIAL MOTIONS

horizon. Now the diurnal motion seems to us quite different from what it is here. The sun, moon, and stars, when they rise, commence their motion directly upwards. If one of them rises exactly in the east, it will pass

Fig. 2.—The Northern Sky and the Pole Star.

through the zenith; one rising south of the east will pass south of the zenith; one rising north of the east, north of the zenith.

Continuing our course into the southern hemisphere, we find that the sun, while still rising in the east, generally passes the meridian to the north of the zenith. The

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