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DIURNAL MOTION

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 325 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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DIURNAL

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

MOTION , the relative

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motion of the

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

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AXIS (Lat. for " axle ")

axis in a direction from

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west toward

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east . The actual motion consists in this rotation . But the

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TERM

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

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CELESTIAL, OR STELLAR

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

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