 | Thomas St. Clair Macdougal - 1857 - 192 pages
...To find at what hour the Sun rises and sets on any day in the year. Rule. — Rectify the globe for the latitude of the place, find the sun's place in the ecliptic for the given day, and bring it to the brazen meridian. Set the index of the hour circle to XII, turn... | |
 | Sophia S. Cornell - Geography - 1861 - 414 pages
...XVIL TO FIND THE SUN'S 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Sophia S. Cornell - Geography - 1867 - 424 pages
...MERIDIAN ALTITUDE AT ANT PLACE ON ANY GIVEN DAY. Rule.—Rectify the globe for the latitude of tho 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... | |
 | sir Richard Phillips - 1868 - 354 pages
...point out all the constellations, and principal stars, there visible. Rule. — Elevate the globe to so many degrees above the horizon as are equal to the latitude of the place, and set the globe due north and south : find the sun's place in the ecliptic, bring it to the brazen... | |
 | Asa Smith - 1868 - 86 pages
...night at that place. RULE. — Raise the pole (of the hemisphere in which the place is situated) as many degrees above the horizon as are equal to the latitude of the place; bring the sun's place on the given day, to the meridian, and set the index to 12 : bring the sun's... | |
 | Henry Kiddle - Astronomy - 1868 - 300 pages
...and the length of the day, at any place, and on any day in the year: Elevate the pole as many degrees as are equal to the latitude of the place, find the sun's place, bring it to the meridian, and set the index to twelve. Then turn the globe till the sun's place is... | |
 | Elias Loomis - Astronomy - 1870 - 274 pages
...a given Place on a given Day, and also the Length of the Day and of the Night. — Elevate the pole to the latitude of the place ; find the sun's place in the ecliptic ; bring it to the meridian, and set the hour index to XEL Turn the globe till the sun's place is brought... | |
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... the western edge of the horizon, and the index will show the time of... 
