But there is the important difference between these Rotations that whereas the earth takes only twenty-four hours to turn once round, the solar globe takes about twenty-six days to complete one of its much more deliberate Rotations.
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If the engine be cut off from the fly-wheel, then, as everyone knows, the massive fly-wheel may still give a few Rotations, but it will speedily come to rest.
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The ratio now begins again to decline, until we find the earth makes only twenty-eight Rotations, instead of twenty-nine, in one revolution of the moon.
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