 | Richard Henry Stoddard - Naturalists - 1809 - 518 pages
...moment when it passes the meridian. This cir cumstance is known to the people of every nation situated beyond the tropics, or in the southern hemisphere....hour of the night, in different seasons, the Cross is erect or inclined. It is a timepiece which advances very regularly nearly four minutes a day, and... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - Natural history - 1818 - 666 pages
...constellation is almost perpendicular at the moment when it passes the meridian. This circumstance is known to every nation, that lives beyond the tropics,...Cross of the South is erect, or inclined. It is a time-piece that advances very regularly near four minutes a day, and no other group o'f stars exhibits,... | |
 | William Cowherd - 1818 - 728 pages
...baptismal covenant) is almost perpendicular at the moment when it passes the meridian. This circumstance is known to every nation that lives beyond the tropics, or in the soi'thern hrinisplure. It lias bren ob served at what hour of the night, in different seasons, the... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - Natural history - 1822 - 762 pages
...constellation is almost perpendicular at the moment when it passes the meridian. This circumstance is known to every nation, that lives beyond the tropics,...hemisphere. It has been observed at what hour of the night, iu different seasons, the Cross of the South is erect, or inclined. It is a time-piece that advances... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - English prose literature - 1822 - 290 pages
...perpendicular at the moment when it passes the meridian ; this circumstance is known to all the inhabitants of the southern hemisphere. It has been observed at what...hour of the night, in different seasons, the cross is erect or inclined ; and this is a time-piece which advances very regularly nearly four minutes a... | |
 | Charles Hulbert - America - 1823 - 374 pages
...that the constellation is almost perpendicular at the moment it passes the meridian. This circumstance is known to every nation that lives beyond the tropics,...cross of the south is erect, or inclined. It is a timepiece that advances very regular near four minutes a day ; and no other group of stars exhibits... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1824 - 452 pages
...that the constellation is almost vertical at the moment when it passes the meridian. This circumstance is known to every nation that lives beyond the tropics, or in the southern hemisphere. It is known at what hour of the night, in different seasons, the Southern Cross is ereT;t,"or inclined.... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...that the constellation is almost vertical at the moment when it passes the meridian. This circumstance is known to every nation that lives beyond the tropics, or in the southern hemisphere. It is known at what hour of the night, in different seasons, the Southern Cross is erect, or inclined.... | |
 | John Hubbard Wilkins - Astronomy - 1825 - 151 pages
...constellation is almost perpendicular at the moment when it passes the meridian. This circumstance is known to every nation, that lives beyond the tropics,...Cross of the south is erect, or inclined. It is a time-piece that advances very regularly near four minutes a daj', and no other group of stars exhibits... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Mrs. Hemans - English poetry - 1825 - 224 pages
...form of which recals the sign of the faith planted by their ancestors in the deserts of the New World It has been observed at what hour of the night, in...the Cross of the South is erect or inclined. It is a time-piece that advances very regularly near four minutes a day, and no other group of stars exhibits... | |
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It has been observed at what hour of the night, in different seasons, the Cross of the South is erect or inclined. It is a time-piece that advances very regularly near four minutes a day, and no other group of stars exhibits, to the naked eye, an observation... 
