The Nautical Encyclopedia
Patterson’s Illustrated Nautical Encyclopedia — Howard Patterson, 1891

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The centre of the solar system and the source of light and heat; diameter, 885,000 miles; circumference, 2,780,000 miles; the sun rotates on its axis in 25d. 7h. 48m.; mean distance from the earth, 95,000,000 miles.

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