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Excerpt from La Plan�te Que Nous Habitons: Notions Famili�res d'Astronomie Physique
La Terre d�crit, en un an, autour du Soleil, une ellipse dont celui-ci occupe un des foyers; et l'on sait comment, par suite de l'inclinaison de l'axe du globe sur le plan de cette ellipse, les diverses saisons se succ�dent avec leurs divers caract�res. 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.
