A Compleat System of General Geography: Explaining the Nature and Properties of the Earth ...Stephen Austen, 1734 - 898 páginas |
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... must neceffarily lie . 7. Six Ways of finding the Longitude of a Place . 8. Five lefs proper Methods of finding the Longitude . 9. Tables of the Longitude and Latitude of the more eminent Places . A Table of the Sun's Right Afcenfion ...
... must neceffarily lie . 7. Six Ways of finding the Longitude of a Place . 8. Five lefs proper Methods of finding the Longitude . 9. Tables of the Longitude and Latitude of the more eminent Places . A Table of the Sun's Right Afcenfion ...
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... must pre- mife the following Definitions and Hypothefes . DEFINITIONS . 1. THE Artificial Terreftrial Globe is a Globe made by Art , on whofe Superficies the Parts of Earth are reprefented , in their proper Places , in the fame ...
... must pre- mife the following Definitions and Hypothefes . DEFINITIONS . 1. THE Artificial Terreftrial Globe is a Globe made by Art , on whofe Superficies the Parts of Earth are reprefented , in their proper Places , in the fame ...
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... must 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 ...
... must 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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... must be calculated from Tables , or taken from an Ephemeris : if one have a Globe it's Place may be nearly found on the wooden Horizon ; if not , they may fuppofe the Sun enters each Sign on the tenth Day of the Month , and then count ...
... must be calculated from Tables , or taken from an Ephemeris : if one have a Globe it's Place may be nearly found on the wooden Horizon ; if not , they may fuppofe the Sun enters each Sign on the tenth Day of the Month , and then count ...
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... must be sometimes nearer , and fometimes further from the Equator ; and thus changes the Seafons , caufing Heat , Cold , Rain , Wind , in the Places it paffes over . THE Superficies of the Earth between the two Tropics is called the ...
... must be sometimes nearer , and fometimes further from the Equator ; and thus changes the Seafons , caufing Heat , Cold , Rain , Wind , in the Places it paffes over . THE Superficies of the Earth between the two Tropics is called 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.