 | Jacob Abbot Cummings - Atlases - 1820 - 346 pages
...parts, of ! 80° each, by the principal meridian, which on our globes is generally the meridian of London. The horizon is an imaginary great circle,...dividing it into upper and lower hemispheres, The hotteon_J3 divided into four equal parts of 90° each, by tnWrorarcarrfiH«/ points, east, west, north,... | |
 | Jacob Abbot Cummings - Geography - 1821 - 366 pages
...equal parts, of 180* each, by the principal meridian, which on our globes is generally the meridian of London. The horizon is an imaginary great circle,...horizon is called its axis, the extremities of which arc the fioles of the horizon. The upper pole of the horizon, or the point exactly over head, is called... | |
 | Joseph Emerson Worcester - Atlases - 1822 - 354 pages
...and land or water appear to meet. The real horizon is a great circle which divides the earth into the upper and lower hemispheres. The horizon is divided...four cardinal points, East, West, North, and South. The wooden horizon of the artificial globe is divided into three parts ; the innermost is marked with... | |
 | Jedidiah Morse, Sidney Edwards Morse - Geography - 1826 - 350 pages
...water seem to meet. The real horizon ia a great circle, parallel to the former, which divides the earth into upper and lower hemispheres. The horizon is divided into four equal parts, of 90° each, hy the four cardinal points, East, West, North, and South. On the artificial globe the horizon is represented... | |
 | Joseph Emerson Worcester - Classical geography - 1844 - 362 pages
...and land or water appear to meet. The real horizon is a great circle which divides the earth into the upper and lower hemispheres. The horizon is divided...90° each, by the four cardinal points, East, West, fforth, and South. The wooden horizon of the artificial globe is divided into three parts ; the innermost... | |
 | Joseph Emerson Worcester - Classical geography - 1844 - 356 pages
...the last two is instantly seen the sign and degre; the sun is HI oar ing every day in the year. 22 The horizon is divided into four equal parts of 90°...four cardinal points, East, West, North, and South. The Ecliptic is an imaginary great circle in the heaven", m the plane of which the earth performs her... | |
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The equator is divided into two equal parts, of 180* each, by the principal meridian, which on our globes is generally the meridian of London. The horizon is an imaginary great circle, encompassing the globe round the middle, and dividing it into upper... 