 | Charles Augustus Young - Astronomy - 1894 - 520 pages
...geographical latitude is the astronomical latitude corrected for " station error." It may be denned as the angle formed with the plane of the equator by a line drawn from the place perpendicular to the surface of the "standard spheroid" at that station. Its determination... | |
 | Charles Augustus Young - Astronomy - 1897 - 554 pages
...geographical latitude is the astronomical latitude corrected for " station error." It may be denned as the angle formed with the plane of the equator by a line drawn from the place perpendicular to the surface of the "standard spheroid" at that station. Its determination... | |
 | William Henry Chandler - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1898 - 600 pages
...there were no local deviations of the plumb line due to attraction of mountains and other causes.) — The Geocentric latitude is the angle formed with the plane of the equator by the line drawn from the point to the earth's center. As the earth is not a sphere, this will not be... | |
 | Charles Augustus Young - Astronomy - 1898 - 666 pages
...gravity, since the earth rotates, and is not spherical. The geographical or geodetic latitude of a station is the angle formed with the plane of the equator by a line drawn from the *io. 53. Station perpendicular to the surface of the Agronomical and Geocentric .,,,.,... | |
 | American Geographical Society of New York - Electronic journals - 1909 - 902 pages
...earth is not spherical but ellipsoidal in form. The geographical or geodetic latitude of a station is the angle formed with the plane of the equator by a line drawn from the station perpendicular to the surface which the deductions of geodesists have assigned... | |
 | Henry Norris Russell, Raymond Smith Dugan, John Quincy Stewart - Astronomy - 1926 - 514 pages
...The geographical latitude is the astronomical latitude corrected for station error. It is defined as the angle formed with the plane of the equator by a line drawn from the place perpendicular to the surface of the standard splieroid at that station. Its determination... | |
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It may be denned as the angle formed with the plane of the equator by a line drawn from the place perpendicular to the surface of the "standard spheroid 