A Compleat System of General Geography: Explaining the Nature and Properties of the Earth ...Stephen Austen, 1734 - 898 páginas |
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... rise . 6. A Day being given , to find the Places where the Sun rifes in a given Point . 7. The Hour being given , to fhew the Place whereto the Sun is then vertical . 8. The Hour being given , to find the Places from whofe Vertex the ...
... rise . 6. A Day being given , to find the Places where the Sun rifes in a given Point . 7. The Hour being given , to fhew the Place whereto the Sun is then vertical . 8. The Hour being given , to find the Places from whofe Vertex the ...
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... rise not for a whole Day , yet they will have the Light all or moft Hours of the Day . THERE is another Cause why the Sun is feen before it be elevated above the Horizon ; viz . the Refraction of the Rays ; of which we treated in Chap ...
... rise not for a whole Day , yet they will have the Light all or moft Hours of the Day . THERE is another Cause why the Sun is feen before it be elevated above the Horizon ; viz . the Refraction of the Rays ; of which we treated in Chap ...
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... rise all that time ; yet they had fome Twilight , in the South especially for there they have moft Twilight at twelve o ' Clock ; which makes their Day in the Winter . ON the thirteenth of January the Air was clear ; and from that time ...
... rise all that time ; yet they had fome Twilight , in the South especially for there they have moft Twilight at twelve o ' Clock ; which makes their Day in the Winter . ON the thirteenth of January the Air was clear ; and from that time ...
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... rising ; and those in the Eaft Horizon have it fetting ; and the Places above the Horizon are enlightened ; and thofe un- der are in darkness . NOTE , This is to be understood of the Center of the Sun's rifing and fetting ; for the Sun ...
... rising ; and those in the Eaft Horizon have it fetting ; and the Places above the Horizon are enlightened ; and thofe un- der are in darkness . NOTE , This is to be understood of the Center of the Sun's rifing and fetting ; for the Sun ...
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... rising . PROPOSITION XXIII . To find by the Globe the Places where the Sun , Moon , and Stars will be as long under the Horizon as they are above , with us or any others . BRING the Place to the Meridian , and find the Antoci of that ...
... rising . PROPOSITION XXIII . To find by the Globe the Places where the Sun , Moon , and Stars will be as long under the Horizon as they are above , with us or any others . BRING the Place to the Meridian , and find the Antoci of that ...
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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.