American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ; Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volumen6Mitchell, Ames and White, 1819 |
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... meridian , with an hour - circle and a quadrant of altitude , and thus fit it inte a wooden horizon . There are ten principal circles repre- sented upon globes , viz . six greater and four lesser ones . The greater circles are the ...
... meridian , with an hour - circle and a quadrant of altitude , and thus fit it inte a wooden horizon . There are ten principal circles repre- sented upon globes , viz . six greater and four lesser ones . The greater circles are the ...
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... meridian . It is divided into 90 ° , and has a notch , nut , and screw , to fix to the brazen meridian in the zenith of any place ; where it turns round a pivot , and supplies the room of vertical circles . The hour - circle is a flat ...
... meridian . It is divided into 90 ° , and has a notch , nut , and screw , to fix to the brazen meridian in the zenith of any place ; where it turns round a pivot , and supplies the room of vertical circles . The hour - circle is a flat ...
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... meridian where London was shows where the periæci dwell , or those people that have the same seasons and at the same time as London , as also the same length of days and nights , & c . at that time , but only their time or hour is just ...
... meridian where London was shows where the periæci dwell , or those people that have the same seasons and at the same time as London , as also the same length of days and nights , & c . at that time , but only their time or hour is just ...
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... meridian , and note the degree of the meridian it comes under . Next turn the globe round again , and note the two points of the ecliptic passing under that degree of the meridian . Lastly , by the wooden horizon , find on what days the ...
... meridian , and note the degree of the meridian it comes under . Next turn the globe round again , and note the two points of the ecliptic passing under that degree of the meridian . Lastly , by the wooden horizon , find on what days the ...
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... meridian at the zenith , and make it revolve till it come to the other place on the globe ; then look on the wooden ... meridian , and that Rectify the globe , bring the sun's place degree which it cuts in the meridian is the declination ...
... meridian at the zenith , and make it revolve till it come to the other place on the globe ; then look on the wooden ... meridian , and that Rectify the globe , bring the sun's place degree which it cuts in the meridian is the declination ...
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