A Compleat System of General Geography: Explaining the Nature and Properties of the Earth ...Stephen Austen, 1734 - 898 páginas |
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... turn the Globe , and the Pencil will defcribe a Circle paffing thro ' all the Places of the fame Latitude . AND in the Maps : draw a Line thro ' the Place given that fhall be parallel to the Equator , and it will go thro ' all the ...
... turn the Globe , and the Pencil will defcribe a Circle paffing thro ' all the Places of the fame Latitude . AND in the Maps : draw a Line thro ' the Place given that fhall be parallel to the Equator , and it will go thro ' all the ...
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... Horizon , fee how many Degrees between it and the North or South , and turn the Line on the Plane fo many Degrees about , and it will be a meridian Line . PRO- PROPOSITION VIII . To place the Globe fo as the 540 The Relative Part.
... Horizon , fee how many Degrees between it and the North or South , and turn the Line on the Plane fo many Degrees about , and it will be a meridian Line . PRO- PROPOSITION VIII . To place the Globe fo as the 540 The Relative Part.
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... turn it about ' till the brafs Me- ridian be just above it . But this is done eafier , if there be a Mariner's Compafs under it , which fhows the North and South Line . THUS may Maps be placed alfo due North and South ; of which there ...
... turn it about ' till the brafs Me- ridian be just above it . But this is done eafier , if there be a Mariner's Compafs under it , which fhows the North and South Line . THUS may Maps be placed alfo due North and South ; of which there ...
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... turning the Globe round , which will cut the Ecliptic in two Points , into which , and the intermediate Points , when the Sun comes it fets not : for all the Parallels thro thefe Points keep above the Horizon in the Ro- tation of the ...
... turning the Globe round , which will cut the Ecliptic in two Points , into which , and the intermediate Points , when the Sun comes it fets not : for all the Parallels thro thefe Points keep above the Horizon in the Ro- tation of the ...
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... turn- ing the Globe , you'll fee all the Points of the Ecliptic rife and fet and fo muft the Sun in thefe Points . PROPOSITION VII . Having a Place in the Torrid Zone , to find the two Days in which the Sun is vertical to it . BRING the ...
... turn- ing the Globe , you'll fee all the Points of the Ecliptic rife and fet and fo muft the Sun in thefe Points . PROPOSITION VII . Having a Place in the Torrid Zone , to find the two Days in which the Sun is vertical to it . BRING the ...
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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.