| David Jennings - Astronomical models - 1766 - 218 pages
...XII. To find the Latitude and Longitude of any givert Star. Put the Center of the Quadrant of Altitude on the Pole of the Ecliptic, and its graduated Edge...Star ; then the Arch of the Quadrant, intercepted betwixt the Star and the Ecliptic, fhews its Latitude ; and the Degree which the Edge ofthe Quadrant... | |
| J. Goldsmith - 1811 - 184 pages
...reckoned on the ecliptic, from the first point of Aries, eastward round the globe. The longitude of the sun is what is called, on the terrestrial globe, the...PROBLEM I. — To find the latitude and longitude of any star* Rule. — Put the centre of the quadrant of altitude on the pole of the ecliptic, and its graduated... | |
| Jacob Willetts - Geography - 1815 - 228 pages
...reckoned on the rdif #c, from the first point of Aries, eastwird round the Globe The longitude ot ihe sun is what is called, on the terrestrial globe, the sun's place. BHUBLEM i. — To fii.d. the latitude and longitujfe oj any given star.* Put the centre of the quadrant... | |
| Sir Richard Phillips - Geography - 1821 - 256 pages
...Jlnd the latitude and longitude of any star. * Rule. — Put the centre of the quadrant of altitude on the pole of the ecliptic, and its graduated edge on the star; then the arch of the quadrant, intercepted between the star and the ecliptic, shows its latitude... | |
| Jacob Willetts - Geography - 1823 - 236 pages
...reckoned -. n the ecliptic, from the first point of Aries, eastward, round the globe The longitude of the sun is what is called, on the terrestrial globe, the...any given star * Put the centre of the quadrant on tha pole of the ef liptic, and its graduated edge or. the given star, then the arch of the quadrant... | |
| William Channing Woodbridge - Geography - 1827 - 496 pages
...III.— To find the Latitude and Longitude of a Star. ' Put the centre of the quadrant of altitude on the pole of the ecliptic, and its graduated edge on the star ; then the degree of the quadrant cut by the star is its latitude ; and the degree of the ecliptic... | |
| Emma Willard - Geography, Ancient - 1835 - 526 pages
...PROBLEM III. — To find the Latitude and Longitude of a Star. Put the centre of the quadrant of altitude on the pole of the ecliptic, and its graduated edge on the star; then the degree of the quadrant cut bv the star is its latitude; and the degree of the ecliptic... | |
| William Channing Woodbridge - Geography - 1836 - 544 pages
...III. — To find the Latitude and Longitude of a Star. ; Put the centre of the quadrant of altitude on the pole of the ecliptic; and its graduated edge on the star; then the degree of the quadrant cut by the star is ils latitude; and the degree of the ecliptic... | |
| Joseph Emerson Worcester - Classical geography - 1844 - 356 pages
...reckoned on the ecliptic, from the first point of Aries, eastward round the glooe. The longitude of the sun is what is called, on the terrestrial globe the sun's place. PROBLEMS ON THE CELESTIAL GLOBE. PROBLEM i. To Jind the Latitude and Longitude of any given Star Put... | |
| Robert Joseph Sullivan - Geography - 1854 - 332 pages
...PROBLEM 12. — To find the Iiditio,i &nd longitude of a star. Put the centre of the quadrant of altitude on the pole of the ecliptic; and its graduated edge on the star ; then the degree of the quadrant cut by the star is its latitude; and the degree of the ecliptic... | |
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