 | David Jennings - 1766 - 218 páginas
...of tie Celeftial Globe, its Points and Circles. THE Celeftial Globe is an artificial Reprefentation of the Heavens, having the fixed Stars drawn upon it, in their natural Order and Situation. It is not pretended that the Celeftial Globe is fo juft a Reprefentation of the Heavens, as the Terreftrial... | |
 | William Thackwray - 1810 - 160 páginas
...Edinburgh lo. St. Helen. 16. Madagascar, SP 17. Madagascar, NP 18. Owhyhce THE CELESTIAL GLOBE. § 17S. THE celestial globe is an artificial representation of the heavens, having the constellations, stars, &c. drawn upon its surface as they are in the heavens. § l?4. The colures are... | |
 | J. Goldsmith - 1811 - 184 páginas
...before and after full tember 1803, was aJxiut sixteen minutes only. * > ' OF THE CELESTIAL GLOBE. 270. The celestial globe is an artificial representation...drawn upon it in their natural order and situation. The eye is supposed to be placed in the centre. 271- As the terrestrial globe, by turning on its axis,... | |
 | George Adams - 1812 - 552 páginas
...horizon, will more readily give the duration pf twilight. EDIT. r 3H, ESSAY II. PART IV. OF THE USE OF THE CELESTIAL GLOBE, AS MOUNTED IN THE COMMON MANNER....the heavens, having the fixed stars drawn upon it, jn their natural order and situation ; whilst its rotation on its axis represents the apparent diurnal... | |
 | Jacob Willetts - 1815 - 228 páginas
...head of Gemini, t OF THE CELESTIAL GLOBE. . The celestial globe is an artificial represent .at ion of the heavens, having the fixed stars drawn upon it, in their natural order and situation. The eye l» supposed to be piaccd in the centre. As the terrestrial globe,by turning on its axis, represents... | |
 | 1820 - 352 páginas
...every part of the earth that is now above the horizon. OF THE CELESTIAL GLOBE. The Celestial Glote is an artificial representation of the heavens having...drawn upon it, in their natural order and situation. The eye is supposed to be placed in the centre. As the terrestrial globe, by turning on its axis, represents... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 256 páginas
...before and after full in September, was about sixteen minutes only. USE OF THE CELESTIAL GLOBE. 114. The Celestial Globe is an artificial representation...drawn upon it in their natural order and situation. The eye is supposed to be placed in the centre ; and if a hole were made in the places of the stars,... | |
 | Daniel Adams - 1821 - 354 páginas
...eclipse is visible to every part of the earth that is now above the horizon. OF THE CELESTIAL GLOBE. The Celestial Globe is an artificial representation...drawn upon it, in their natural order and situation. The eye is supposed to be placed in the centre. As the terrestrial globe by turning on its axis represents... | |
 | Edward Bruce (bookseller.) - 1821 - 418 páginas
...is it then twilight ? ' PART III. CONTAINING PROBLEMS ON THE CELESTIAL GLOBE. DEFINITIONS. 1. 1 HE celestial globe is an artificial representation of the heavens, having the fixed stars delineated upon it, in their natural order and situation. The celestial globe is not so just a representation... | |
 | Joseph Emerson Worcester - 1822 - 354 páginas
...having the seas and different countries delineated on it, as they are on the surface of the earth. The celestial globe is an artificial representation...having the fixed stars drawn upon it in their natural situation. The aa-is of a globe is an imaginary line passing through its centre from north to south,... | |
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As the terrestrial globe by turning on its axis represents the real diurnal motion of the earth ; so the celestial globe, by turning on its axis, represents the apparent motion of the heavens. 
