 | Mary Milner - 1844 - 788 pages
...an instrument, called, from that circumstance, a Transit Instrument. The distance of a heavenly body north or south of the Equator, measured in degrees, minutes, and seconds of space, is called its north or south declination. If the right ascension and declination of a star... | |
 | Andrew Findlater - Geography - 1864 - 168 pages
...the First Meridian. The first meridian drawn in English maps is that which passes through Greenwich. Latitude is distance north or south of the equator, measured in degrees. The lines which run from one side of a map to the other are called PARALLELS OF LATITUDE and point... | |
 | Bennett George Johns - 1866 - 172 pages
...the First Meridian. The first meridian drawn in English maps is that which passes through Greenwich. Latitude is distance north or south of the equator, measured in degrees. The lines which run from one side of a map to the •other are called PARALLELS OF LATITUDE and point... | |
 | Moffatt and Paige - 1881 - 152 pages
...crossing the Equator, and the parallels of latitude. They are also called Meridians of Longitude. (A) Latitude is distance north or south of the Equator, measured in degrees. (i) Longitude is distance east or west of the First Meridian, measured in degrees. (k) Zones are five... | |
 | John Newell Tilden - Commercial geography - 1899 - 212 pages
...23£° from the south pole. The distance of the Arctic circle from the equator is 4,005 common miles. LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE. — The location of a place...have no latitude. The length of a degree of latitude is 00 geographical or nautical miles, and averages about 69 common or statute miles. The length of... | |
 | John Newell Tilden - Commercial geography - 1899 - 212 pages
...distance of the Arctic circle from the equator is 4,005 common miles. LATiriTDE AND LONGITTTOE. — The location of a place on the earth's surface is...have no latitude. The length of a degree of latitude is 60 geographical or nautical miles, and averages about 69 common or statute miles. The length of... | |
 | John Newell Tilden - Commercial geography - 1900 - 214 pages
...the lines ; a standard meiridian as the other. Latitude is distance north or south of the equatpr, measured in degrees, minutes, and seconds. Places...north or south of the equator. Places on the equator ha re no latitude. The length of a degree of latitude is 60 geographical or nautical miles, and averages... | |
 | James Thom Beard - Coal mines and mining - 1920 - 454 pages
...equator. There are thus 180 deg. of east longitude and 180 deg. of west longitude. Latitude is likewise distance north or south of the equator, measured in degrees, minutes and seconds, on any meridian or great circle passing through the poles. There are thus 90 deg. of north latitude... | |
 | Frank Morton McMurry, Almon Ernest Parkins - Geography - 1921 - 520 pages
...or south latitude. San Francisco, for instance, is near 38° north latitude (abbreviated N. La/.). Latitude is distance north or south of the equator, measured in degrees; and the parallel lines are called parallels of latitude. Of course there are no marks upon the earth... | |
 | Hawthorne Daniel - Sailing ships - 1925 - 350 pages
...say — the sun is never directly over the equator, and declination is its distance at any given time north or south of the equator, measured in degrees, minutes, and seconds. This cannot be learned by any observations from a ship at sea. It is comparatively simple, however,... | |
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The equator is taken as one of the lines ; a standard meridian as the other. Latitude is distance north or south of the equator, measured in degrees, minutes, and seconds. Places are in north or in south latitude according as they are north or south of... 
