A Compleat System of General Geography: Explaining the Nature and Properties of the Earth ...Stephen Austen, 1734 - 898 páginas |
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Página 531
... Degrees . THESE may be alfo fhown on the Univerfal Geographical Maps , whofe curve Lines meet in the Poles . Thofe Maps that have only strait Lines have not the Poles , but the Meridians are fuppofed to terminate in them . The Equator ...
... Degrees . THESE may be alfo fhown on the Univerfal Geographical Maps , whofe curve Lines meet in the Poles . Thofe Maps that have only strait Lines have not the Poles , but the Meridians are fuppofed to terminate in them . The Equator ...
Página 533
... Degrees on the Equator , and every Parallel , every Hour ; which is the twenty fourth Part of three hundred and fixty Degrees round , as appears by the horary Circle of Brafs fixed on the Meridian , at the North Pole , whereon the Index ...
... Degrees on the Equator , and every Parallel , every Hour ; which is the twenty fourth Part of three hundred and fixty Degrees round , as appears by the horary Circle of Brafs fixed on the Meridian , at the North Pole , whereon the Index ...
Página 534
... Degrees and the Sun moves fifty nine Mi- nutes eight Seconds each Day , by going thro ' three hundred and fixty Degrees in the Ecliptic , in three hundred fixty five Days and a quarter ; or we may reckon it a Degree in a Day : nor is ...
... Degrees and the Sun moves fifty nine Mi- nutes eight Seconds each Day , by going thro ' three hundred and fixty Degrees in the Ecliptic , in three hundred fixty five Days and a quarter ; or we may reckon it a Degree in a Day : nor is ...
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... Degrees from it to the Equa- tor , and it will be the Latitude fought . IN Geographical Maps : if it be a right - lined one , draw a Line through the Place parallel to the Equator ; and the ends of that Line on the Mar- gin fhow the ...
... Degrees from it to the Equa- tor , and it will be the Latitude fought . IN Geographical Maps : if it be a right - lined one , draw a Line through the Place parallel to the Equator ; and the ends of that Line on the Mar- gin fhow the ...
Página 538
... Degrees , L'be- ing the Pole of the Horizon ; then LH is equal PQ , and LP being taken from both , what re- mains ... Degree on the brass Meridian , and placing a Pencil there , turn the Globe , and the Pencil will defcribe a Circle ...
... Degrees , L'be- ing the Pole of the Horizon ; then LH is equal PQ , and LP being taken from both , what re- mains ... Degree on the brass Meridian , and placing a Pencil there , turn the Globe , and the Pencil will defcribe a Circle ...
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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.