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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... Orbit round the Earth . Let the white Hemisphere represent that Hemi- fphere , and Face of the Moon , which is always obverted to the Earth ; and the Light of the Candle will fhew how much of of that Hemisphere is enlightened , by the ...
... Orbit round the Earth . Let the white Hemisphere represent that Hemi- fphere , and Face of the Moon , which is always obverted to the Earth ; and the Light of the Candle will fhew how much of of that Hemisphere is enlightened , by the ...
Page ix
... Orbit . Again , by Means of these two Globes , the Doctrine of Eclipfes , and of the Tides , may be tollerably well illuftrated . And if the leffer Globe be carried round the Candle , either further off than the Earth , to represent a ...
... Orbit . Again , by Means of these two Globes , the Doctrine of Eclipfes , and of the Tides , may be tollerably well illuftrated . And if the leffer Globe be carried round the Candle , either further off than the Earth , to represent a ...
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... Orbit , but it makes the Sun to be the Center of the Or- bits of Mercury , Venus , Mars , Jupiter , and Saturn , in which they are carried round the Sun in their respective Years , as the Sun is round the Earth in a Solar Year : and all ...
... Orbit , but it makes the Sun to be the Center of the Or- bits of Mercury , Venus , Mars , Jupiter , and Saturn , in which they are carried round the Sun in their respective Years , as the Sun is round the Earth in a Solar Year : and all ...
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... Orbit , and Days and Nights are again every where equal . The nearer any Place is to the Pole , it has the longer Days in the Summer , and the shorter in the Winter . At the Pole the longest Day is fix Months . In all Pofitions of the ...
... Orbit , and Days and Nights are again every where equal . The nearer any Place is to the Pole , it has the longer Days in the Summer , and the shorter in the Winter . At the Pole the longest Day is fix Months . In all Pofitions of the ...
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... Orbit * , makes the Summer to the Northern Hemifphere , long- er than the Winter by eight Days : That is , from * The Earth's Orbit is in Reality an Oval , or Ellipfe , having the Sun ftanding in one Focus . The Focus's of an Ellipfe ...
... Orbit * , makes the Summer to the Northern Hemifphere , long- er than the Winter by eight Days : That is , from * The Earth's Orbit is in Reality an Oval , or Ellipfe , having the Sun ftanding in one Focus . The Focus's of an Ellipfe ...
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Afcenfion Aftronomers alfo alſo Altitude Angle appears Arch Aries Atmoſphere Axis becauſe betwixt Cafe called Cauſe Celeſtial Globe Center Comet confequently confifts Conftellations Days and Nights Degrees Diameter Diſtance diurnal Motion Divifions Dominical Letter Eaft Ecliptic Epact equal Equator Equinoctial Equinox fafter faid fame feen feven fhews fince firft firſt fixed Stars fome fometimes ftands fuch full Moon fuppofed greateſt Heat Heavens Hemiſphere Horizon Hour inferior Conjunction juft Jupiter laft Latitude leffer lefs Light longeſt Day Longitude Lunar meaſured Meridian moft Month Moon's moſt muft muſt nearer Noon Number obferved oblique occafioned Orbit paffing thro Parallax Planets Pofition Point of Aries Polar Circles Pole prefent PROB Quadrant Reaſon refpect repreſent rifing round the Earth round the Sun Seafons ſhe Sun's Place Surface Synodical Month Terreftrial thefe theſe thofe thoſe Tropic Tropic of Cancer tude turn the Globe uſed Venus vernal Equinox Weft whofe Zenith Zodiac