Coriol: A World Elsewhere

From Essentials of Health: A Text-Book on Anatomy, Physiology, Hygiene, Alcohol, and Narcotics, Charles H. Stowell, 1898. The red hook is the aorta, which in some of us is troubled.

No cyclone has ever crossed the equator. The Coriolis effect, which is too small to be measured in your bathroom sink, is absolute at the scale of the hurricane, the typhoon, the tropical storm: below the equator, the storm spins with the clock, and above, against. In this, it is like gravity or political power, ...

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Published on April 21, 2026 12:41
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