An Introduction to the Use of the Globes, and the Orery: As Also the Application of Astronomy to Chronology ... Adapted to the Instruction and Entertainment of Such Persons as are Not Previously Versed in Mathematic Science. With an Appendix, Attempting to Explain the Account of the First and Fourth Days Work of Creation in the First Chapter of GenesisJ. Nourse, J. Oswald and J. Buckland, 1752 - 172 pages |
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... Heat C 2 I Heat and Cold , which , by their Situation Ch . 2. The Divifions of the Earth . I I.
... Heat C 2 I Heat and Cold , which , by their Situation Ch . 2. The Divifions of the Earth . I I.
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... Heat and Cold , which , by their Situation , they are fubject to , viz . One Torrid Zone , two Temperate , and two Frigid . The Tor- rid Zone lies betwixt the two Tropics ; the two Temperate Zones are comprehended be- twixt the Tropics ...
... Heat and Cold , which , by their Situation , they are fubject to , viz . One Torrid Zone , two Temperate , and two Frigid . The Tor- rid Zone lies betwixt the two Tropics ; the two Temperate Zones are comprehended be- twixt the Tropics ...
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... Heat that usually follows in the next Month is fignified by the Lion , an Animal remarkable for his Strength and Fiercenefs . Nothing could be more proper than the Symbol for the Harveft Month , viz . the Virgin Reaper or Gleaner with ...
... Heat that usually follows in the next Month is fignified by the Lion , an Animal remarkable for his Strength and Fiercenefs . Nothing could be more proper than the Symbol for the Harveft Month , viz . the Virgin Reaper or Gleaner with ...
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... Heat . However , our Almanack - makers still continue to mark the Beginning of the Dog - Days about the 18th of July , and their End about the 28th of Auguft . Obferve " Obferve the Degree of the Ecliptic then at the Meridian Ch . 5 ...
... Heat . However , our Almanack - makers still continue to mark the Beginning of the Dog - Days about the 18th of July , and their End about the 28th of Auguft . Obferve " Obferve the Degree of the Ecliptic then at the Meridian Ch . 5 ...
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... Heat in Summer than in Winter is , partly , the Sun's being longer above the Horizon ; and chiefly , his being higher above the Horizon ; confe- quently his Rays come to the Earth in a Direction more perpendicular to its Surface in the ...
... Heat in Summer than in Winter is , partly , the Sun's being longer above the Horizon ; and chiefly , his being higher above the Horizon ; confe- quently his Rays come to the Earth in a Direction more perpendicular to its Surface in the ...
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