 | Sarah S. Cornell - Geography - 1857 - 422 pages
...ALTITUDE AT ANY PLACE ON ANY GIVEN DAY. Rule. — Rectify the globe for the latitude of the place. Find the sun's place in the ecliptic, and bring it to the brass meridian ; the number of degrees on the meridian between the horizon and the sun's place is the altitude required.... | |
 | Sophia S. Cornell - Geography - 1861 - 414 pages
...MERIDIAN ALTITUDE AT ANY PLACE ON ANY GIVEN DAY. Ride.— Rectify the globe for the latitude of the place. Find the sun's place in the ecliptic, and bring it to the brass meridian ; the number of degrees on the meridian between the horizon and the sun's place is the altitude required.... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - Geography - 1861 - 364 pages
...meridian altitude on a given day at anyplace. Rectify the globe for the latitude of the place; and find the sun's place in the ecliptic, and bring it to the brazen meridian. Then count the number of degrees on the meridian between the son's place and the h,... | |
 | John Olding Butler - 1866 - 208 pages
...he has gained his highest point in the heavens. Bule. — Rectify the globe for the given latitude ; find the sun's place in the ecliptic, and bring it to the meridian ; then count the number of degrees which are between the sun's place and the wooden horizon... | |
 | sir Richard Phillips - 1868 - 354 pages
...given, to find the sun's declination, and all those places where the sun will be vertical on that day. Rule. — Find the sun's place in the ecliptic, and bring it to the meridian, and the degree which stands over it is the sun's declination. Then turn the globe from west... | |
 | Royal Astronomical Society - Astronomy - 1870 - 226 pages
...satellite, vii. 249 Notice respecting, xii. 82 Biographical notice of, xv. 110 RIDDLE, J., on that part of the equation of time which depends on the obliquity of the ecliptic, ix. 51 On a method of computing the small corrections for clearing the lunar distance, xi. 63 Modifications... | |
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Rectify the globe for the latitude of the place. Find the sun's place in the ecliptic, and bring it to the brass meridian ; the number of degrees on the meridian between the horizon and the sun's place is the altitude required. 
