Word: zenith
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...classes will assist in making observations on the meteor shower, which will probably be visible at that time. During the evening, the meteors will appear to be coming from the eastern horizon; and towards Sunday morning they will radiate from a point a little to the southeast of the zenith, in the constellation of Leo. This point will rise about midnight. If the weather is favorable, photographs will be taken to determine the height above the surface of the earth at which the meteors first become visible...
...vision that we cannot be sure that we tell that which we see, because our reason takes part in what we observe. In order to find the points of the compass we must first find a level surface and then by the arrangement of angles we must find the zenith of the sky. A single point however does not help us, and another must be obtained. Looking to the north we can find stars forming circles, and as we go farther north we find the circles growing gradually smaller, till at last they seem almost to stand still. We arrive...
...ancient astronomers came to the general idea of the spherical shape of the earth for they observed that as one travelled north or south he found that the position of the pole in regard to the position of the zenith changed. If one travelled south, the pole became farther distant from the zenith, and if north, it became nearer. This then took place either because the earth was round or the pole was an object so near that it might be passed and left behind. But the ancients observed that the stars were very far distant and therefore arrived...
They noticed also, in travelling, the change of the angles between the zenith and pole, and by measuring the distance travelled and the change of the angles they were enabled approximately to measure the circumference of the earth...
...author of "Mixed Doubles" evidently has a curious idea of the cerebral ruminations of the average Duluth man, for that an inhabitant of that "Zenith City of the Unsalted Seas" - as he tersely designates Duluth - should take an expelled Yale junior for the Republican candidate for Governor of the State, and a Colonel at that certainly reflects small credit on the people of that city. The comedy of errors which ensues is amusing but the extreme incongruousness of the plot rather vitiates the effect of the whole...