 | Tobias Ostrander - Astronomy - 1834 - 272 pages
...degree corresponding to the latitude ; the given place is then in the zenith. Then by problem tenth, find the Sun's place for the given day ; bring it to the meridian and set the index to 12.* 1. Rectify the globe for the latitude of London on the 10th of May. In this... | |
 | 1844 - 636 pages
....—Tojind all those plates in the. torrid zone to which the sun is vertical on a given day. — Rule. Find the sun's place for the given day, bring it to the meridian, mark the declination, and turn the glolie round, when all those places which pass under that mark of the meridian, will have the sun vertical... | |
 | Edward Bruce (bookseller.), John Bruce - Astronomy - 1846 - 398 pages
...Find the sun's declination for the given day, and mark the declination, then turn the globe round, and all those places which pass under that mark of the...meridian will have the sun vertical on the given day. EXAMPLES. 1. To what places is the sun vertical Nov. 10th? Answ. To Otaheite, the Great Cyclades, and... | |
 | James MIDDLETON (F.G.S.) - 1848 - 262 pages
...and observe its declination. Turn the globe round, and all those places which pass under that degree of the meridian, will have the sun vertical on the given day. EXAMPLES. 1. To what places is the sun vertical on May 1? A. Martinico, Honduras, Cambodia, the Ladrone... | |
 | John Olding Butler - Celestial globes - 1850 - 376 pages
...between the tropics ; but this can only happen to places within those two circles. Rule. Having found the sun's place for the given day, bring it to the meridian without rectifying the globe, and note the declination; then bring the given place to the meridian,... | |
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... round, when all those places which pass under that mark of the meridian, will have the sun vertical on the given day. By the analemma, bring the day of the month, marked upon the analemrna, to the brazen meridian, and mark the declination ; then the... 
