...one day over ; the weeks into seven days, or rotations of the earth on its own axis ; those rotations into 24 hours ; each hour into 60 minutes ; and each minute into 60 seconds, or periods, in which a pendulum that is 39,2. inches long, will vibrate. The vibration of such a pendulum,...

...three kinds of days recognised by astronomers, viz., Sidereal, Solar, and Mean Solar. Each of them is divided into 24 hours, each hour into 60 minutes, and each minute into 60 seconds. The sidereal day is the interval between two successive transits of the true first point of Aries;...

...three kinds of days recognised by astronomers, viz. Sidereal, Solar, and Mean Solar. Each of them is divided into 24 hours, each hour into 60 minutes, and each minute into Go seconds. The sidereal day is the interval between two successive transits of the true first point...

...revolution of the firmament is called a SIDEREAL DAY. This interval is divided, like a common day, into 24 hours, each hour into 60 minutes, and each minute into 60 seconds. Since in 24 sidereal hours the sphere turns through 360°, and since its motion is rigorously uniform, it...

...revolution of the firmament is called a SIDEREAL i>.\ t . This interval is divided, like a common day, into 24 hours, each hour into 60 minutes, and each minute into 60 seconds. Since in 24 sidereal hours the sphere turns through 360°, and since its motion is rigorously uniform, it...

...are the same, and therefore, if each interval be called a sidereal day, and divided into 24 sidereal hours, each hour into 60 minutes, and each minute into 60 seconds, then, if the length of our pendulum be such that it makes 86400 beats in that interval, the interval...

...revolution of the firmament is called a SXDEBEAL DAT. This interval is divided, like a common day, into 24 hours, each hour into 60 minutes, and each minute into 60 seconds. Since in 24 sidereal hours the sphere turns through 360°, and since its motion is rigorously uniform, it...

...the time the earth takes to turn so as to bring the sun to the same meridian again. The solar day k divided into 24 hours, each hour into 60 minutes, and each minute into 60 seconds. The denominations of time are centuries, years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes and seconds, TABLE....

...complete revolution of the firmament is called a sidereal day. This interval is divided into 24 sidereal hours, each hour into 60 minutes, and each minute into 60 seconds. Since the celestial sphere turns through 360° in 24 sidereal hours, it turns through 15° in one sidereal...

...The sidereal day, which is used by astronomers, is 3m. 56'5s. less than the solar day. Both days are divided into 24 hours ; each hour into 60 minutes ; and each minute into 60 seconds ; the seconds are sub-divided decimally. The hours are designated by the sign h ; the minutes by m...