Sky line

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The word sky line is an outdated word in scientific language and is now used synonymously with geographic area. Grimm considers the celestial line to be “the earth under a certain part of the sky, especially with regard to the climate ”.

Literally, celestial lines are lines drawn by celestial bodies on the sky. Two well-known stretches of the sky, for example, are the tropics (from ancient Greek ἡ τροπ Wend - tropä - the phrase), our today's tropics , i.e. the lines that the sun each 21/22. December and on 20./21. June moves in the sky, not to be confused with the tropics as climatic zones, which were named after the former, i.e. the tropics as tropics, but only later after the word climatic zone was coinedreceived their current meaning as such. The word climatic zone was only coined when the Greek word climate was no longer understood and the word celestial line was only half understood, because only the meaning of weather remained on the climate and the meaning of area was stuck to the celestial line.

Since the tropics (tropics) are in a certain way a reflection of the inclination of the ecliptic , in so far as they form the north or south tangent of the same, and thus a certain identity, to be read off the number of degrees between the tropics and the inclination of the Ecliptic exists, many came up with the idea of ​​the Greek term τὸ κλίμα - to klima , i.e. to reproduce the climate with a tendency, which in this context gives rise to false associations. It should better be called "Sun angle depending on the geographical latitude".