A Compleat System of General Geography: Explaining the Nature and Properties of the Earth ...Stephen Austen, 1734 - 898 páginas |
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... also a great Circle in the Heavens , which the Sun defcribes by it's annual Motion : and tho ' ' tis not proper to the Earth ; yet ' tis drawn on the terreftrial Globe , and is feen on Maps , because of it's great use . 7. THE Tropics ...
... also a great Circle in the Heavens , which the Sun defcribes by it's annual Motion : and tho ' ' tis not proper to the Earth ; yet ' tis drawn on the terreftrial Globe , and is feen on Maps , because of it's great use . 7. THE Tropics ...
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... also know from Aftronomy how the Sun and Stars move . 1. THAT is the firft Motion common to them all , by which in twenty four Hours they go round the Earth when they rife , pafs the Meridian , and fet , and rife again ; and they ...
... also know from Aftronomy how the Sun and Stars move . 1. THAT is the firft Motion common to them all , by which in twenty four Hours they go round the Earth when they rife , pafs the Meridian , and fet , and rife again ; and they ...
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... we are at Sea , or Land , and find our Latitude , we may fee on the Globe that Parallel of Latitude in which we are . THIS is also plain . СНАР . CHA P. XXIV . Of the Divifion of the Earth CHAP . 23 , of Univerfal Geography . 543.
... we are at Sea , or Land , and find our Latitude , we may fee on the Globe that Parallel of Latitude in which we are . THIS is also plain . СНАР . CHA P. XXIV . Of the Divifion of the Earth CHAP . 23 , of Univerfal Geography . 543.
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... also shown by the horary Circle . FROM thefe Things may be eafily understood the Divifion of the Earth into Climates . A Climate is the Space included by two Paral- lels , between the Pole and the Equator , into which when the Sun comes ...
... also shown by the horary Circle . FROM thefe Things may be eafily understood the Divifion of the Earth into Climates . A Climate is the Space included by two Paral- lels , between the Pole and the Equator , into which when the Sun comes ...
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... also the overflowing of the Nile , and other Rivers in Africa ; of the natural Caufe of which , take the following account . " THE River Nile , according to best Geogra- " phers rifes about fourteen or fifteen Degrees of " North ...
... also the overflowing of the Nile , and other Rivers in Africa ; of the natural Caufe of which , take the following account . " THE River Nile , according to best Geogra- " phers rifes about fourteen or fifteen Degrees of " North ...
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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.