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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... Place where you held it at first , and it will reprefent the Autumnal ... Place , whofe Latitude is marked upon it . Perhaps it may be of fome Ufe to draw a Circle with Chalk , upon the Table , round the Candle ... Sun , viii The PREFACE .
... Place where you held it at first , and it will reprefent the Autumnal ... Place , whofe Latitude is marked upon it . Perhaps it may be of fome Ufe to draw a Circle with Chalk , upon the Table , round the Candle ... Sun , viii The PREFACE .
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... Place can be brought under its proper Me- ridian ; and into the Middle of the He- misphere which is bounded with its ... Sun's apparent annual Path in the Heavens : Or it is fuch a Circle on which if you fuppofe a Man to travel round the ...
... Place can be brought under its proper Me- ridian ; and into the Middle of the He- misphere which is bounded with its ... Sun's apparent annual Path in the Heavens : Or it is fuch a Circle on which if you fuppofe a Man to travel round the ...
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... Sun , Moon , and Stars , appear to move round in Circles parallel to the Horizon ; the fame Hemisphere of fixed Stars ... Place : So that the Pole being duly elevated for any Place , and the Place brought under the graduated Edge of the ...
... Sun , Moon , and Stars , appear to move round in Circles parallel to the Horizon ; the fame Hemisphere of fixed Stars ... Place : So that the Pole being duly elevated for any Place , and the Place brought under the graduated Edge of the ...
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... Sun is in either of them , the Day and Night is every where equal . 4. The firft Points of Cancer and Ca- pricorn are ... Sun's Station , or ftanding Place . South , ? South Point of the Heavens , measured by Degrees 16 Part I. The ...
... Sun is in either of them , the Day and Night is every where equal . 4. The firft Points of Cancer and Ca- pricorn are ... Sun's Station , or ftanding Place . South , ? South Point of the Heavens , measured by Degrees 16 Part I. The ...
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... Places on the Earth is measured by Degrees upon the Equator , counting from the firft Meridian ; fo the Longitude of ... Sun has no Latitude , being always in the Ecliptic : nor do we ufually speak of his Longitude ; but his Place in the ...
... Places on the Earth is measured by Degrees upon the Equator , counting from the firft Meridian ; fo the Longitude of ... Sun has no Latitude , being always in the Ecliptic : nor do we ufually speak of his Longitude ; but his Place in the ...
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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