DIURNAL See also:

• MOTION (Lat. motio, from movere, to move)
• MOTION, LAWS OF

MOTION  , the relative See also:

• MOTION (Lat. motio, from movere, to move)
• MOTION, LAWS OF

motion of the See also:

• EARTH
• EARTH (a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Erde, Dutch aarde, Swed. and Dan. jord; outside Teutonic it appears only in the Gr. 'pq'e, on the ground; it has been connected by some etymologists with the Aryan root ar-, to plough, which is seen in
• EARTH, FIGURE OF
• EARTH, FIGURE OF THE

earth and the heavens, which results from the rotation of our globe on its See also:

• AXIS (Lat. for " axle ")

axis in a direction from See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

west toward See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

east . The actual motion consists in this rotation . But the See also:

• TERM

term is commonly applied to the resultant apparent revolution of the heavens from east to west, the axis of which passes through the See also:

• CELESTIAL, OR STELLAR

celestial poles, and is coincident in direction with the axis of the earth .