A Compleat System of General Geography: Explaining the Nature and Properties of the Earth ...Stephen Austen, 1734 - 898 páginas |
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... Side of the Equator ; the other of Capricorn , on the South Side . They are marked on the Globe and Maps by a double Line , with their Names . And the Polar Circles are two Parallels , as far from the Pole as the Tro- pics are from the ...
... Side of the Equator ; the other of Capricorn , on the South Side . They are marked on the Globe and Maps by a double Line , with their Names . And the Polar Circles are two Parallels , as far from the Pole as the Tro- pics are from the ...
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... Side of the Map , and defcribe a Circle . PROPOSITION VII . To find a Meridian Line on a given Plane . 1. THERE are feveral ways ; the easiest is to ufe a Magnetic Needle which will point North and South : but because in many Places it ...
... Side of the Map , and defcribe a Circle . PROPOSITION VII . To find a Meridian Line on a given Plane . 1. THERE are feveral ways ; the easiest is to ufe a Magnetic Needle which will point North and South : but because in many Places it ...
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... Side of the Equator ; but add it if on the North Side ; and you have the Latitude . The Sun's Distance from the E- quator , or the Declination , may be had from it's Place in the Ecliptic ; or from Tables ; or from the Globe , bringing ...
... Side of the Equator ; but add it if on the North Side ; and you have the Latitude . The Sun's Distance from the E- quator , or the Declination , may be had from it's Place in the Ecliptic ; or from Tables ; or from the Globe , bringing ...
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... shortest when the Sun is in the first of Capricorn . And the fame Method may be taken when the Sum is on the other Side of the Equator . COROL COROLLARY . A Place being given , or it's Latitude CHAP 25 % of Univerfal Geography . 557.
... shortest when the Sun is in the first of Capricorn . And the fame Method may be taken when the Sum is on the other Side of the Equator . COROL COROLLARY . A Place being given , or it's Latitude CHAP 25 % of Univerfal Geography . 557.
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... Side of the Equator , and elevate the Pole for that Latitude and take two or more Places in the Ecliptic , and you will find that which is nearest the first of Can- cer keeps longeft above the Equator : and the fame will happen as to ...
... Side of the Equator , and elevate the Pole for that Latitude and take two or more Places in the Ecliptic , and you will find that which is nearest the first of Can- cer keeps longeft above the Equator : and the fame will happen as to ...
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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.