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" ... is north or south according as the place is north or south of the equator. § 169. Small circles parallel to the equator are called parallels of latitude. § 170. The ecliptic is a great circle making an angle of 23° 30' nearly, with the equacor... "
Elements of Descriptive Geometry: With Their Application to Spherical ... - Page 115
by Charles Davies - 1835 - 174 pages
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An Elementary Treatise on Astronomy: In Four Parts. Containing a Systematic ...

William Augustus Norton - Astronomy - 1839 - 530 pages
...measured by this arc. Thus, oe, or the angle o O e, is the reduced latitude of the place o. Latitude is North, or South, according as the place is north, or south of the equator. The reduced latitude differs somejtffKit from the astronomical latitude, by reason of the slight deviation...
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The Practice of Navigation and Nautical Astronomy

Henry Raper - Nautical astronomy - 1840 - 700 pages
...measured on a meridian; thus the latitude of a place A is AM, the latitude of B is B N. Latitude is named north or south, according as the place is north or south of the equator. Thus A is in north latitude, B is in south latitude. 108. The COLATITUDE is the complement of the latitude...
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An introduction to the study of modern geography, with a chapter on the ...

Henry Hopwood - 1846 - 250 pages
...minutes, and seconds, will be its distance from the equator ; and is called its latitude. It is either north or south, according as the place is north or south of the equator. A place situated upon the equator will of course have no latitude; whilst the greatest possible latitudes...
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A New Treatise on Astronomy, and the Use of the Globes, in Two Parts ...

James M'Intire - Astronomy - 1850 - 352 pages
...is an arc of the terrestrial meridian intercepted between the place and the equator, and is either north or south, according as the place is north or south of the equator. Or, the latitude of a place is its distance in degrees from the equator, measured on the arc of a great...
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Mathematical Dictionary and Cyclopedia of Mathematical Science: Comprising ...

Charles Davies, William Guy Peck - Mathematics - 1855 - 628 pages
...the earth, is its angular distance from the equator, measured on the meridian of the place. Latitude is north or south, according as the place is north or south of the equator. Circles whose planes arc parallel to that of the equator, arc called circles of latitude, or parallels...
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School geography

Henry Hopwood - 1856 - 306 pages
...minutes, and seconds, will be its distance from the equator ; and is called its latitude. It is either north or south, according as the place is north or south of the equator. A place situated upon the equator will of course have no latitude ; whilst the greatest possible latitudes...
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The History of the World: Comprising a General History, Both ..., Volume 1

Samuel Maunder - World history - 1862 - 820 pages
...number of degrees, &c., in the arc of the meridian, between the place and the equator; and if called North or South, according as the place is north or south of the equator. Longitude is the distance of any place from a given spot, generally the capital of the country, measured...
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Elements of Descriptive Geometry: With Their Application to Spherical ...

Charles Davies - Geometry, Descriptive - 1868 - 258 pages
...to any point of the circumference <>!' a circle, measured on the sphere i; called the polar distanco of the circle. axis ; the points in which the axis...circle making an angle of 23° 30' nearly, with the equacor ; the points in which it intersects the equator are called the equinoctial points. § 171....
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The Practice of Navigation: And Nautical Astronomy

Henry Raper - Nautical astronomy - 1882 - 952 pages
...measured on a meridian ; thus the latitude of a place A is AM, the latitude of B is BK. Latitude is named north or south, according as the place is north or south of the equator. Thus A is in north latitude, B is in south latitude. 185. The COLATITUDE is the complement of the latitude...
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The Silver-Burdett Arithmetics: Book 1-, Book 3

George Morris Philips, Robert Franklin Anderson - Arithmetic - 1913 - 394 pages
...latitude of a place is its distance from the equator measured in degrees upon the meridian of the place, and is north or south according as the place is north or south of the equator. 5. The longitude of a place is the distance in degrees on the equator from the prime meridian to the...
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