A Compleat System of General Geography: Explaining the Nature and Properties of the Earth ...Stephen Austen, 1734 - 898 páginas |
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... go back , and the Sun appear to change bis Course . 15. How the Length of Shadows increafes and decreafes . 16. The Length of a Style and it's Shadow being given , to find the Height of the Sun. 17. To find the Length of the Shadow ...
... go back , and the Sun appear to change bis Course . 15. How the Length of Shadows increafes and decreafes . 16. The Length of a Style and it's Shadow being given , to find the Height of the Sun. 17. To find the Length of the Shadow ...
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... goes back much faster from the Vertex of the Places in the Equator , than of those near the Tropics in the Torrid Zone . BOOK III . The Comparative Part , regarding the Earth . CHA P. XXXI . Of the Longitude of Places , Page 668 1. Any ...
... goes back much faster from the Vertex of the Places in the Equator , than of those near the Tropics in the Torrid Zone . BOOK III . The Comparative Part , regarding the Earth . CHA P. XXXI . Of the Longitude of Places , Page 668 1. Any ...
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... goes towards the Poles ; which is twenty three Degrees twenty nine Minutes , being the Angle the Ecliptic makes with the Equator ; the one is called the Tropic of Cancer , on the North Side of the Equator ; the other of Capricorn , on ...
... goes towards the Poles ; which is twenty three Degrees twenty nine Minutes , being the Angle the Ecliptic makes with the Equator ; the one is called the Tropic of Cancer , on the North Side of the Equator ; the other of Capricorn , on ...
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... go round the Earth when they rife , pafs the Meridian , and fet , and rife again ; and they therein feem to de- fcribe every Day Circles parallel to the Equator ; as moving all on the Axis of the Earth ; and thus they move fifteen ...
... go round the Earth when they rife , pafs the Meridian , and fet , and rife again ; and they therein feem to de- fcribe every Day Circles parallel to the Equator ; as moving all on the Axis of the Earth ; and thus they move fifteen ...
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... in the Year , it goes thro ' a Sign in a Month ; but enters not the Sign in the beginning of the Month , but about the twenty first Day , Day , according to the Gregorian Calendar , or the 534 SECT . VI . The Relative Part.
... in the Year , it goes thro ' a Sign in a Month ; but enters not the Sign in the beginning of the Month , but about the twenty first Day , Day , according to the Gregorian Calendar , or the 534 SECT . VI . The Relative Part.
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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.