A Compleat System of General Geography: Explaining the Nature and Properties of the Earth ...Stephen Austen, 1734 - 898 páginas |
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... easier to obferve the Line in which the Sun is feen either when rifing or fetting ; and bringing the Sun's Place on the Globe to the wooden Horizon , fee how many Degrees between it and the North or South , and turn the Line on the ...
... easier to obferve the Line in which the Sun is feen either when rifing or fetting ; and bringing the Sun's Place on the Globe to the wooden Horizon , fee how many Degrees between it and the North or South , and turn the Line on the ...
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... easily do , and find alfo the fame Point on the wooden Horizon ; and having the Sun's Place in the Ecliptic , then raise the brass Meri- dian in the North of the wooden Horizon , or dian CHAP . 23. of Univerfal Geography . 541.
... easily do , and find alfo the fame Point on the wooden Horizon ; and having the Sun's Place in the Ecliptic , then raise the brass Meri- dian in the North of the wooden Horizon , or dian CHAP . 23. of Univerfal Geography . 541.
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... and December , there fhould be Winter , for the Sun is then furthest from them . " Tis not easy to account for thofe Storms and Lightning they have when the Sun Sun is fo near their Zenith ; it seems to 588 SECT . VI . The Relative Part.
... and December , there fhould be Winter , for the Sun is then furthest from them . " Tis not easy to account for thofe Storms and Lightning they have when the Sun Sun is fo near their Zenith ; it seems to 588 SECT . VI . The Relative Part.
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... easily err a few Days ; for being in their Bed they did not obferve the Sun rife on the tenth , eleventh , and twelfth of February : or fome Clouds or Rain might hinder their feeing it . CHAP . CHA P. XXVII . Of the Shadows which ...
... easily err a few Days ; for being in their Bed they did not obferve the Sun rife on the tenth , eleventh , and twelfth of February : or fome Clouds or Rain might hinder their feeing it . CHAP . CHA P. XXVII . Of the Shadows which ...
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... easily fhewn by a Figure . Therefore we are to find the top of the Cone , ( which comes on the Moon when eclipfed ) how far it is from the Center of the Earth ; thus : As the Difference of the Semidiameter of the Sun and Earth , is to ...
... easily fhewn by a Figure . Therefore we are to find the top of the Cone , ( which comes on the Moon when eclipfed ) how far it is from the Center of the Earth ; thus : As the Difference of the Semidiameter of the Sun and Earth , is to ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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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.