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Excerpt from Globes and Maps in Elementary Schools: A Teacher's Manual
The earth. The earth is a great ball which swings in vast space and is held in' its course by the attraction of the sun. It is of immense size, being about 2 miles around, so that if a fast railroad train going fifty miles an hour could pass clear around without-a stop, it would require about twenty-one days, going night and day, to make the journey. TO get a fair idea how the earth as a whole appears, look at the moon, which is another great ball but is much smaller than the earth. A sphere. Referring now to the globe and speaking as if it were the real earth, observe that it is round. As there are different ways of being round, it is not sufficient to say merely that a thing is round. A plate is round, so is a stovepipe. The earth is round like a ball, SO it is called a Sphere. Only one half of it can be seen at any one time. This half is called a hemisphere (hemi means half). There is always a corresponding hemisphere on the other side. A different hemisphere is presented to the eye every time the position of the earth or the Oh server is Changed. 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.
