A Compleat System of General Geography: Explaining the Nature and Properties of the Earth ...Stephen Austen, 1734 - 898 páginas |
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... shall be directed as on a hori zontal Plane of any other Place . 12. In Places under the Equator the Shadow on the equinoctial Days remains in one ftrait Line . A 4 13. How 13. How the Business of Shadow happens in Places of The ...
... shall be directed as on a hori zontal Plane of any other Place . 12. In Places under the Equator the Shadow on the equinoctial Days remains in one ftrait Line . A 4 13. How 13. How the Business of Shadow happens in Places of The ...
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... shall go back . CHA P. XXVIII . Of the relative Properties of the Heavens in different Places of the Earth ; with the different Denomi- nations of the Inhabitants , thence arifing , P. 633 . 1. What People have it twelve o'Clock , and ...
... shall go back . CHA P. XXVIII . Of the relative Properties of the Heavens in different Places of the Earth ; with the different Denomi- nations of the Inhabitants , thence arifing , P. 633 . 1. What People have it twelve o'Clock , and ...
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... shall fhow at the end of this Book ; for it cannot be yet understood . 2. THE Poles of the Earth are two fixed Points diametrically oppofite , at the ends of the Axis , about which the Earth revolves ; and are exactly under the two ...
... shall fhow at the end of this Book ; for it cannot be yet understood . 2. THE Poles of the Earth are two fixed Points diametrically oppofite , at the ends of the Axis , about which the Earth revolves ; and are exactly under the two ...
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... shall better remember the Climates , and the Places in each Climate , and may compare the Degrees of Heat and Cold in them : which we chufe rather to leave to the Industry of the Readers , that they be the better acquainted with the ...
... shall better remember the Climates , and the Places in each Climate , and may compare the Degrees of Heat and Cold in them : which we chufe rather to leave to the Industry of the Readers , that they be the better acquainted with the ...
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... shall give an Example hereafter . 4. THE Moon when full , or nearly fo , con- tinues many Days above the Horizon , when the Sun continues under it ; and the longer the nearer the Place is to the Pole : yet it is not fo high as to afford ...
... shall give an Example hereafter . 4. THE Moon when full , or nearly fo , con- tinues many Days above the Horizon , when the Sun continues under it ; and the longer the nearer the Place is to the Pole : yet it is not fo high as to afford ...
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Africa alfo almoft Altitude Angle Autumn becauſe begins Brafil brafs Meridian Cancer Capricorn Caufe cauſe celeftial Center Chap Circle Circles of Latitude Climate Cold defcribe Degr Degrees doth Eaft Earth Eaſt Ecliptic elevate the Pole Equator eſpecially faid fame fecond feems feen feven feveral fhall fhould fhow firft firſt firſt Meridian fmall fome Places Frigid Zone fuch fuppofe greateſt grees hath Heat Horizon Hour Interfection June laft Latitude lefs Libra Line longest Day Longitude Maps mean Diſtance Method middle Moon moſt Mountains muſt Night North Nova Zembla Number obferve oppofite Parallel Peru Plane Point PROPOSITION Quadrant Rains reprefent ridian Right Afcenfion rizon Seafons Semidiameter Shadow ſhall ſhow South Spring Stars Summer Sun's Place Temperate Zone Tenth terreftrial thefe theſe thoſe thro Torrid Zone Tropic Tropic of Cancer turn the Globe twenty firft underſtand uſe Weft whofe Winds Winter Zenith
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Página 785 - ... 3. There is a certain place of the earth, at which if two men should chance to meet, one would stand upright upon the soles of the other's feet, and neither of them would feel the other's weight, and yet they both should retain their natural posture.
Página 791 - NAPLES, f1tuated in a very low Valley ; and yet the Sun is nearer to the Inhabitants thereof, every Noon by three thoufand Miles and upwards, than -when he either rifeth or fetteth to thofe of the faid Village.
Página 794 - ... do always bear upon one and the fame point of the compafs. 4. There is a large and famous country on the continent of Africa, many of whofe inhabitants are born perfectly deaf, and others ftone-blind, and continue fo during their whole lives ; and fuch is the amazing faculty of thofe perfons, that the deaf are as capable to judge of founds, as thofe that hear, and the blind of colours, as thofe that fee. 5.
Página 797 - ... of the other three, that a man may travel on foot from it to any of the other three, in the...
Página 788 - Sim-Dial be duly erected, the Shadow will go back feveral Degrees upon the fame at a certain time of the Year, and that twice every Day for the Space of divers Weeks, yet no ways derogating from that miraculous returning of the Shadow upon the Dial of Abaz in the Days of King Hezekiab, Solution.
Página 636 - The days of the one are equal to the nights of the other ; hence the shortest day to the one is the longest day to the other.