 | Samuel Vince - Astronomy - 1811 - 260 pages
...performs its diurnal rotation ; and the extremities p, p', of this diameter, are called its poles. 16. The latitude of a place on the earth's surface is its angular distance from the equator, measured upon a secondary to it; thus, the arc eb measures the latitude of b. The secondaries... | |
 | Samuel Vince - Astronomia - 1814 - 602 pages
...and the other the southern ; and the poles are respectively called the north and south poles. 1 6. The Latitude of a place on the earth's surface is its angular distance from the equator, measured upon a secondary to it. These secondaries to the equator are called Meridians. 1... | |
 | Sir John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1833 - 444 pages
...called an altitude and azimuth instrument, which will be described in the next chapter. (86.) PEF. 10. The latitude of a place on the earth's surface is its angular distance from the equator, measured on its own terrestrial meridian : it is reckoned in degrees, minutes, and seconds,... | |
 | sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - 500 pages
...called an altitude and azimuth instrument, which will be described in the next chapter. (86.) DBF. 10. The latitude of a place on the earth's surface is its angular distance from the equator, measured on its own terrestrial meridian: it is reckoned in degrees, minutes, and seconds,... | |
 | Sir J. Butler Williams - Geodesy - 1846 - 368 pages
...horizon will be found for ordinary purposes convenient and quickly adjusted. OF LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE. The latitude of a place on the earth's surface is its angular distance from the equator, and it is equal to the HR represents the true horizon. H' R' „ apparent horizon. EQ „... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1849 - 672 pages
...spectator must set out if he •would travel directly towards the north or south pole. (88.) DEF. 7. The latitude of a place on the earth's surface is its angular distance from the equator, measured on its own terrestrial meridian: it is reckoned in degrees, minutes, and seconds,... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - Astronomy - 1850 - 412 pages
...the earth's surface is a great circle passing through both the poles and through the place. § 14. The latitude of a place on the earth's surface is its angular distance from the equator. This angle lies at the centre of the earth, but is measured on the meridian of the place.... | |
 | Joseph Allen Galbraith - 1855 - 186 pages
...its position of rest by burning the silk cord. 2. Apparent Diurnal Rotation of Celestial Bodies. 1 . The Latitude of a place on the Earth's surface is its angular distance from the Equator, measured at the centre of the Earth. 2. A Parallel of Latitude is a small circle parallel... | |
 | Jabez Hogg - Physics - 1861 - 594 pages
...from two points, or from two points situated in two great circles of the spheres, as the longitude of a place on the earth's surface is its angular distance from an assumed meridian, and its latitude the angular distance from the equator. The intersection of these... | |
 | Johannes von Gumpach - Earth (Planet) - 1862 - 290 pages
...consequently, by plumblines, meeting in the center of the Earth. Thus, Sir John Herschel defines : * — " The latitude of a place on the Earth's surface is its angular distance from the equator, measured on its own terrestrial meridian. . . . Thus, the observatory at Greenwich is situated... | |
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