Institutes of mathematical geography for the use of schools |
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angle appear Aries ascension azimuth beginning bodies bring Bring the place bring the sun's called Capricorn centre circle colure conjunction considered contains continual darkness days and nights degree difference distance divided earth east ecliptic equal equator equinoctial find the sun's fix the quadrant former four given given day goes greater greatest half happen heavens hemisphere hence high water horizon hour index will shew Islands later latitude length Libra London longer longitude mark meridian minutes month moon moon's place motion nearly never noon north pole northern o'clock oblique Ocean opposite parallel passes past plane poles PROB quadrant quadrant of altitude quarter reckoned Rectify the globe remainder round set the index shadow shine side signs situation solar solstice southern star sun rises sun's declination sun's place tides tropic of Cancer tropic of Capricorn turn the globe twelve vertical zenith zone lie
Populaire passages
Pagina 39 - The north temperate zone lies between the tropic of Cancer and the arctic circle ; and the south temperate zone between the tropic of Capricorn and the antarctic circle.
Pagina 79 - Then to all the places just under the western side of the horizon, the sun is rising ; to those...
Pagina 25 - All places between the equator and the north pole are in north latitude, and all places between the equator and the south pole are in south latitude. The latitude is greater, as the place is farther from the equator and nearer the poles.
Pagina 48 - Bring the place at which the hour is given to the meridian, and set the index to the given hour...
Pagina 77 - An eclipse of the sun is caused by the interposition of the moon between the earth and...
Pagina 107 - The right ascension of the sun, or a star, is that degree of the equinoctial which rises with the sun, or a star, in a right sphere, and is reckoned from the equinoctial point Aries eastward round the globe.
Pagina 58 - Rectify the globe for the latitude of the place ; bring the sun's place to the meridian, and set the index to 12...
Pagina 23 - LATITUDE are circles drawn parallel to the equator. THE LATITUDE of a place is its distance north or south from the equator, reckoned in degrees on the meridian passing through that place.
Pagina 99 - ... from it, and the remainder will be the time of high water in the afternoon of the given day.* TIDES.
Pagina 54 - Elevate the pole so many degrees above the horizon as are equal to the latitude of the given place ; find the sun's place in the ecliptic, and bring it to the eastern semicircle of the horizon ; the number of degrees from the sun's place to the east point of the horizon will be the rising amplitude ; bring the sun's place to the western semicircle of the horizon, and the...
