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Symzonia: Voyage of Discovery
·
Captain Adam Seaborn
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When
the
sun
has
great
southern
declination,
it
is
seen
directly
through
the
opening
at
the
south
pole,
a
little
above
the
horizon--this
gives
an
interval
of
bright
light;
and
as
the
rays
of
heat
are
more
refrangible
than
those
of
light
[4],
a
sufficient
degree
of
heat
is
experienced
to
ripen
the
most
delicate
fruits.
At
this
season,
during
night,
the
rays
of
the
sun
are
reflected
from
the
opposite
rim
of
the
polar
opening,
and
afford
so
much
light
as
to
render
the
stars
invisible.
The
full
moon
is
never
seen
at
this
period;
for
while
the
sun
is
in
south
declination,
the
moon
fulls
to
the
north
of
the
equator,
to
give
light
to
the
north
polar
region,
and
the
northern
internal
hemisphere.
March
and
September
are
the
darkest
months.
Both
the
sun
and
full
moon
are
then
in
the
equator,
and
shine
very
obliquely
by
refraction,
into
both
polar
openings.
Yet,
by
reflection
from
side
to
side,
they
afford
a
faint
light
quite
to
the
internal
equator,
where
two
reflected
suns
and
moons
are
dimly
seen
at
the
same
time.
This
circumstance
had
led
the
internals
to
suppose
that
there
were
actually
duplicates
of
those
luminaries.
Their
situation,
it
should
be
considered,
did
not
admit
of
such
observations
of
the
celestial
bodies,
as
were
necessary
to
correct
that
error.
During
this
season,
the
planets
and
stars
of
the
southern
hemisphere
are
visible,
some
directly,
and
others
by
reflection.
This
occasions
great
mistakes
in
their
astronomical
calculations,
which
they
ascribe
to
the
aberrations
of
the
heavenly
bodies.
It
never
occurred
to
them
that
their
field
of
vision
was
a
limited
internal
concave
sphere,
and
a
great
part
of
their
firmament
nothing
but
a
reflection
of
the
external
heavens.
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