...all the branches of molecular physics, but also with astronomy, since climatic rhythms depend upon the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of the ecliptic, and more remotely upon the variations in that inclination known as precession and nutation. It is for...

...inclined toward the sign of Capricoruus. These two inclinations in opposite directions are an effect of the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of the ecliptic. We have said, in the beginning of this chapter, that the planetary centre A, contrarily to the centre...

...perpendicular to the plane of its orbit is 23° 61', which in a similar way is somewhat greater than the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of the ecliptic, which is 23° 27' 24". So that in both respects Mars offers a slight exaggeration of the conditions...

...We have now shown how the varying lengths of day and night, and the succession of the seasons, are caused by the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of its orbit, and the revolution of the earth around the sun. And it is easily seen that if the axis were...

...and we can not conceive of any force likely to produce it. For the past fifty years, the relation of the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of the ecliptic and its varying angle with the line of the apsides, has been the subject of careful study, from the...

...earth's movements, changes in which must affect the earth's climates to some extent. These values are: 1. The inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of the ecliptic; 2. The precession of the equinoxes, or position of the perihelion and aphelion points (apsides) in...

...point of fact we are nearest the sun about January i, and farthest about July i), but by reason of the " inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of the ecliptic." This will be clear from the following : — For the sake of argument we will suppose that the earth...

...earth's movements, changes in which must affect the earth's climates to some extent. These values are: 1. The inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of the ecliptic; 2. The precession of the equinoxes, or position of the perihelion and aphelion points (apsides) in...

...to vary in length. In the diagram on page 381 the straight lines drawn through the globed represent the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of the ecliptic. By ecliptic we mean the apparent path of the sun among the stats caused by the earth's annual motion....

...fact, be very nearly that of the . Sun during the day, six months before or after. And therefore, as the inclination of the Earth's axis to the plane of the ecliptic causes the Sun's path (in such a latitude as our own) to be much longer, and its noontide elevation...