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A discussion immediately ensued: some were for having the sun rise at a certain point in the horizon, and gradually ascend in a straight line, higher and higher, day by day, for three months, until he reached his greatest altitude, and then sink in the same straight line, disappearing at the end of the long half year of Arctic day, at the same place where he made his appearance; because, said the young disputant, the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, to us, for the reason that we have a diurnal motion with the earth from west to east. The man standing at the north pole, however, has no west to east motion, he only goes round and round with the axis, and, therefore, being a fixture himself, the sun must be a fixture to him, as far as the daily motion is concerned, and it must rise twenty-three and a half degrees above the horizon, and sink in the same manner, because this last motion would naturally be caused by the inclination of the earth's axis and its revolution round the sun. This, he thought, |