 | Charles James - English language - 1805 - 1236 pages
...the equator. LONGITUDE of a place, in geography, its distance from some first mendiai», or an arch of the equator intercepted between the meridian of the place, and the first meridian. See GEOGRAPHY. 'LONGITUDE of motion, according to some philosophers, is the distance... | |
 | John Aikin - Geography - 1807 - 442 pages
...or west, and is reckoned in degrees and minutes upon the equator. Or, the longitude of a place is an arc of the equator intercepted between the meridian of the place and the first meridian. To find the latitude of any place on the. terrestrial globe. Bring the place to the... | |
 | sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - 500 pages
...we speak of longitude, we reckon from Greenwich. The longitude of a place is, therefore, measured by the arc of the equator intercepted between the meridian of the place and that of Greenwich ; or, which is the same thing, by the spherical angle at the pole included between... | |
 | Sir John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1833 - 444 pages
...we speak of longitude, we reckon from Greenwich. The longitude of a place is, therefore, measured by the arc of the equator intercepted between the meridian of the place and that of Greenwich ; or, which is the same thing, by the spherical angle at the pole included between... | |
 | John Radford Young - Astronomy - 1833 - 286 pages
...have fixed upon the meridian of Greenwich Observatory for the first meridian. 4. The longitude of any place is the arc of the equator, intercepted between the meridian of that place and the first meridian; the longitude, therefore, is the measure of the angle between the... | |
 | 1834 - 578 pages
...requires the same time to arrive at it ; and that time bears the same proportion to a sidereal day that the arc of the equator, intercepted between the meridian of the place and the meridian in question, bears to the whole circumference of the equator. And conversely, if we observe the time... | |
 | John West, Sir John Leslie - Analytic functions - 1838 - 664 pages
...to the horizon, and zenith distance is the complement of that arc. Longitude of a place on the earth is the arc of the equator intercepted between the meridian of the place and a given meridian, called the first meridian. Latitude on the earth is an arc of the meridian between... | |
 | Robert Simson (master of Colebrooke house acad, Islington.) - 1838 - 206 pages
...circle supposed to surround the earth, and running through the poles. What is the longitude of a place ? The longitude of a place is the arc of the equator intercepted between the first meridian and the meridian of the place. How is longitude measured ? Degrees of longitude are... | |
 | Charles William Hackley - Trigonometry - 1838 - 328 pages
...have fixed upon the meridian of Greenwich Observatory for the first meridian. 4. The longitude of any place is the arc of the equator, intercepted between the meridian of that place and the first meridian ; the longitude, therefore, is the measure of the angle between the... | |
 | Charles Davies - Navigation - 1841 - 414 pages
...have fixed on the meridian of Greenwich Observatory for the first meridian. 5. The longitude of any place is the arc of the equator intercepted between the meridian of that place and the first meridian, and is east or west, according as the place lies east or west of... | |
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The longitude of a place is the arc of the equator intercepted between the meridian of that place and some assumed meridian to which all others are referred. 
