Abstract: A tribe living near the North Pole might well consider the direction defined by the North Star to be particularly sacred. It has the nice geometrical property of being perpendicular to the snow, it forms the axis of rotation for all the other stars on the celestial sphere, and it coincides with the direction in which snowballs fall. However, as we all know, this is just because the North Pole is a very special place. At all other points on the surface of the earth this direction is still special – it still forms the axis of the celestial sphere – but not that special. To the man in the moon it is not special at all.
Publication Year: 1999
Publication Date: 1999-05-28
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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