A Compleat System of General Geography: Explaining the Nature and Properties of the Earth ...Stephen Austen, 1734 - 898 páginas |
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... Moon is darkened in an Eclipfe . 19. The different Lengths of Shadows . 20. Of the Shadow of a Style , which is part of the Axis of the World , or parallel thereto . 21. To make an Equinoctial Sun - Dial . 22. To defcribe a Dial on an ...
... Moon is darkened in an Eclipfe . 19. The different Lengths of Shadows . 20. Of the Shadow of a Style , which is part of the Axis of the World , or parallel thereto . 21. To make an Equinoctial Sun - Dial . 22. To defcribe a Dial on an ...
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... Moon is vertical upon a given Day . 16. To find the Hour of the Moon's rifing and setting . 17. To fhew all the Places where the Moon rifes and fets . 18. To exhibit the Places where the Eclipfe of the Moon may be feen , and where it ...
... Moon is vertical upon a given Day . 16. To find the Hour of the Moon's rifing and setting . 17. To fhew all the Places where the Moon rifes and fets . 18. To exhibit the Places where the Eclipfe of the Moon may be feen , and where it ...
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... Moon , would appear immoveable in the fame Place , PROPOSITION II . In Places under the Equator the Days and Nights are always equal and at the Poles there is but one Day and Night in the Year ; tho ' the Day at the North Pole is longer ...
... Moon , would appear immoveable in the fame Place , PROPOSITION II . In Places under the Equator the Days and Nights are always equal and at the Poles there is but one Day and Night in the Year ; tho ' the Day at the North Pole is longer ...
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... Moon , for more or less time above or under the Horizon ; and it's greater or lefs Elevation above it , or Depreffion under it . 5. THE fame may be faid of the fixed Stars , especially the more remarkable ; and of the five Planets ...
... Moon , for more or less time above or under the Horizon ; and it's greater or lefs Elevation above it , or Depreffion under it . 5. THE fame may be faid of the fixed Stars , especially the more remarkable ; and of the five Planets ...
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... Moon rises almost per- pendicularly to the Horizon , tho ' a little more ob- liquely , because it goes five Degrees from the E- cliptic , and continues a little above twelve Hours above the Horizon , and almoft as many below , going far ...
... Moon rises almost per- pendicularly to the Horizon , tho ' a little more ob- liquely , because it goes five Degrees from the E- cliptic , and continues a little above twelve Hours above the Horizon , and almoft as many below , going far ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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.