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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... fuppofed to represent the Earth , and the other the Heavens , as vifible by Obferva- tion . The former is called the Terrestrial or Terraqueous Globe , the latter the Celestial . B Half Half a Globe or Sphere is called a He- misphere.
... fuppofed to represent the Earth , and the other the Heavens , as vifible by Obferva- tion . The former is called the Terrestrial or Terraqueous Globe , the latter the Celestial . B Half Half a Globe or Sphere is called a He- misphere.
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... fuppofed to be furrounded with several imaginary Circles , which are either drawn upon the artificial Globe , or expreffed by the Wooden and Brass Work about it . Thefe Circles are diftinguished into Greater , and Leffer . The greater ...
... fuppofed to be furrounded with several imaginary Circles , which are either drawn upon the artificial Globe , or expreffed by the Wooden and Brass Work about it . Thefe Circles are diftinguished into Greater , and Leffer . The greater ...
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... fuppofed to be divided into 360 Degrees . Two Lines drawn from any two Points in the Circle to the Center ( except two Points that lie in a ftrait Line with the Center , as A and E ) from an Angle at the Center , which is called an ...
... fuppofed to be divided into 360 Degrees . Two Lines drawn from any two Points in the Circle to the Center ( except two Points that lie in a ftrait Line with the Center , as A and E ) from an Angle at the Center , which is called an ...
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... fuppofed a little to represent a Wain or Waggon with three Horses ; but a very strong Imagination would find it extreamly difficult to difco- ver any fuch natural Refemblance , betwixt the Bulk of the Conftellations , and the Figures ...
... fuppofed a little to represent a Wain or Waggon with three Horses ; but a very strong Imagination would find it extreamly difficult to difco- ver any fuch natural Refemblance , betwixt the Bulk of the Conftellations , and the Figures ...
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... fuppofed the Earth to be im- movably fixed in the Center of the Univerfe , and the seven Planets , viz . the Moan , Mercury , Venus , the Sun , Mars , Jupiter , and Saturn ; and , above them all , the Firma- ment of fixed Stars , to be ...
... fuppofed the Earth to be im- movably fixed in the Center of the Univerfe , and the seven Planets , viz . the Moan , Mercury , Venus , the Sun , Mars , Jupiter , and Saturn ; and , above them all , the Firma- ment of fixed Stars , to be ...
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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