Hand-book of the Terrestrial Globe, Or, Guide to Fitz's New Method of Mounting and Operating Globes: Designed for the Use of Families, Schools, and Academies |
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Hand-Book of the Terrestrial Globe: Or, Guide to Fitz's New Method of ... Ellen Eliza Fitz No preview available - 2016 |
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allel ALLEN & GREENOUGH'S alternate day beneath the day-circle beneath the twilight-circle brass meridian Bring the given Bring the meridian calendar disk forward calendar index celestial equator celestial sphere continuous day continuous night date opposite day and night December 21 difference of longitude distance earth earth's surface east ecliptic equinox Estimate in days Exercises Find the beginning Find the difference find the Length frigid zone given day given parallel given period given place Half morocco June 21 latitude length of day longitude March 21 meridian altitude morocco motion noon north frigid zone northern note the date number of degrees opposite the calendar opposite the solar orbit period of alternate period of continuous period of twilight plane polar circles poles position right ascension ring arrangement September 21 solar index solstice southern parallel sun is vertical sun's declination Turn the calendar Turn the globe vernal equinox zenith
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