“An” Introduction To The Use Of Globes, And The Orrery: With the Application of Astronomy to Chronology: Adapted to the Instruction and Entertainment of Such Persons as are Not Previously Versed in Mathematic Science ; With an Appendix, Attempting to Explain the Account of the First and Forth Days Work of Creation in the First Chapter of GenesisJ. Nours ... J. Oswald ... and J. Buckland, 1747 - 168 páginas |
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... Meridian . The Meridian which paffes through Fero , one of the Canary Islands , is gene- rally Fig . 1 . * Every Circle , whether Great or Small , is fuppofed to be divided into 360 Degrees . Two Lines drawn from any two Points in the ...
... Meridian . The Meridian which paffes through Fero , one of the Canary Islands , is gene- rally Fig . 1 . * Every Circle , whether Great or Small , is fuppofed to be divided into 360 Degrees . Two Lines drawn from any two Points in the ...
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... Meridian reprefents the Meridian of any Place , when , by turning the Globe , the Place is brought juft under it . Meridians at fifteen Degrees distance from each other are called Hour - Circles ; because the Places that each of them ...
... Meridian reprefents the Meridian of any Place , when , by turning the Globe , the Place is brought juft under it . Meridians at fifteen Degrees distance from each other are called Hour - Circles ; because the Places that each of them ...
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... Meridian , & c . A Map representing the Surface of half the Globe , is faid to be projected upon the Plane of the Meridian , when the Pole of the Meridian is in its Center ; and the Poles of the Equator are in the Periphery or ...
... Meridian , & c . A Map representing the Surface of half the Globe , is faid to be projected upon the Plane of the Meridian , when the Pole of the Meridian is in its Center ; and the Poles of the Equator are in the Periphery or ...
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... Meridian . The Parallels of Latitude and Meridi- ans are the Lines which are drawn upon Maps , croffing one another , and marking the Degrees of Latitude and Longitude . C III . The III . The Brafs Circle with an Index faften'd at Ch ...
... Meridian . The Parallels of Latitude and Meridi- ans are the Lines which are drawn upon Maps , croffing one another , and marking the Degrees of Latitude and Longitude . C III . The III . The Brafs Circle with an Index faften'd at Ch ...
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... Meridian ; and it is always equal to the Latitude of the Place : So that the Pole being duly elevated for any Place , and the Place brought under the graduated Edge of the brazen Meridian , it is exactly in the Pole of the Horizon ...
... Meridian ; and it is always equal to the Latitude of the Place : So that the Pole being duly elevated for any Place , and the Place brought under the graduated Edge of the brazen Meridian , it is exactly in the Pole of the Horizon ...
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Afcenfion Aftronomers alfo alſo Angle annual Motion appear Arch Aries Atmoſphere Axis becauſe betwixt called Cauſe Celestial Globe Center Comet confequently Conftellations Days and Nights Degrees Diameter diftant Diſtance diurnal Motion Divifion Dominical Letter Eaft Ecliptic Epact equal Equator Equinoctial Equinox expreffed faid fame feen feven fhews fhould fignifies firft firſt fixed Stars fome fometimes ftands fuch fuppofed greateſt Heat Heavens Hemiſphere Horizon juft Jupiter Kalendar Latitude leffer lefs Light longeſt Day Longitude meaſured Meridian Month Moon's moſt muſt nearer Noon Number obferved oblique occafioned oppofite Point Orbit paffing thro Parallax parallel Planets Pofition Point of Aries Polar Circles Pole prefent PROB Quadrant of Altitude repreſent reſpective rifing round the Earth round the Sun Saturn Seafons ſeen ſhe Signs Sun's Place Surface Syftem Terreftrial Globe thefe theſe thofe thoſe Tropic Tropic of Cancer tude turn the Globe Uſe Venus vernal Equinox Weft whofe Winter Zenith Zodiac