A Compleat System of General Geography: Explaining the Nature and Properties of the Earth ...Stephen Austen, 1734 - 898 páginas |
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... Winter are to be defined . 3. The Determination of the Seasons in different Zones , and Places of the Zones . 4. A Place in the Torrid Zone being given , to find the Days of the Year whereon Summer , Autumn , Spring , and Winter begin ...
... Winter are to be defined . 3. The Determination of the Seasons in different Zones , and Places of the Zones . 4. A Place in the Torrid Zone being given , to find the Days of the Year whereon Summer , Autumn , Spring , and Winter begin ...
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... Winter are to be defined . ALTHO ' we are not , in treating of the Sci- ences , to difpute about the Definitions of things ; yet , because the Signification of fome Words is dubious we must explain them here , to avoid Confufiony and ...
... Winter are to be defined . ALTHO ' we are not , in treating of the Sci- ences , to difpute about the Definitions of things ; yet , because the Signification of fome Words is dubious we must explain them here , to avoid Confufiony and ...
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... Winter by Cold , or lefs Heat ; and Definitions must be fo framed , as to agree in part with these Notions , or not to be repugnant to them ; and there is the fame Difficulty as to Spring and Autumn in the Torrid Zone ; whilft there ...
... Winter by Cold , or lefs Heat ; and Definitions must be fo framed , as to agree in part with these Notions , or not to be repugnant to them ; and there is the fame Difficulty as to Spring and Autumn in the Torrid Zone ; whilft there ...
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... Winter Seafon : and tho ' in feveral Places the celeftial and terreftrial Summer and Winter happen at one Time of the Year ; yet in fome Places of the Torrid Zone they are in different Times of the Year , as fhall be showed hereafter ...
... Winter Seafon : and tho ' in feveral Places the celeftial and terreftrial Summer and Winter happen at one Time of the Year ; yet in fome Places of the Torrid Zone they are in different Times of the Year , as fhall be showed hereafter ...
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... Winter while ' tis be- tween the first of Capricorn , and the first of Aries . THE Truth of this Propofition appears from the forefaid Definitions , and may be eafily fhown on the Globe and Maps ; for the Sun is leaft di- stant from the ...
... Winter while ' tis be- tween the first of Capricorn , and the first of Aries . THE Truth of this Propofition appears from the forefaid Definitions , and may be eafily fhown on the Globe and Maps ; for the Sun is leaft di- stant from the ...
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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.