| James Smith - Industrial arts - 1815 - 684 pages
...pnrpose, that of determining the longitude of places on the earth, with créât facility and certainty. The longitude of a place is its distance east or west from another, reckoned in degrees of the equator, and it can always he ascertained with certainty, provided... | |
| Jedidiah Morse - Geography - 1818 - 384 pages
...to be tn north latitude ; if it lie between the Equator and the Smrth pole, it is in south latitude. The Longitude of a place is its distance, east or west, from some fixed meridian, measured on the equator. On the equator, a degree of longitude is equal to 60 geographical... | |
| Barnum Field - Geography - 1837 - 166 pages
...Every 'place ha* its meridian. When the meridian of any place is opposite the sun, it is noon at that place. The Longitude of a place is its distance east or west from, some fixed meridian, reckoned in degrees and minutes. The longitude of all places mentioned in this book,... | |
| Robert Simson (master of Colebrooke house acad, Islington.) - 1838 - 206 pages
...Latitude is measured by degrees of a circle supposed to surround the earth, and running through the poles. What is the longitude of a place ? The longitude of a place is the arc of the equator intercepted between the first meridian and the meridian of the place. How is... | |
| Barnum Field - Geography - 1840 - 168 pages
...Every place has its meridian. When the meridian of any place is opposite the sun, it is noon .it that place. The Longitude of a place is its distance east or west from some fixed meridian, reckoned in degrees and minutes. The longitude of all places mentioned in this book,... | |
| Charles Butler - 1846 - 222 pages
...north latitude; and places in the line of the Tropic of Capricorn, 23£ degrees of south latitude. 21 . The Longitude of a place is its distance, east or west, from some other given point on the earth's surface. 22. The first Meridian, or line whence longitudes are reckoned,... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1856 - 866 pages
...its distance from the ecliptic, while its distance from the celestial equator is called declination. The longitude of a place is its distance east or west from the first meridian counted along the earth's equator ; longitude in the heavens is distance eastward... | |
| Charles Baker - Education - 1857 - 438 pages
...day) an hour sooner than we have ; each part of the globe must therefore have its own time of day. The longitude of a place is its distance east or west from the first meridian. first meridian — simply the starting point adopted by different countries for... | |
| Alexander Mackay - Geography - 1861 - 720 pages
...meridian passing through it ; and when the sun comes to that meridian, it is noon or mid-day at that place. The longitude of a place is its distance east or west from the Jirit meridian, or that one from which we agree to coimt. This has varied with different nations,... | |
| Alexander Mackay - Geography - 1864 - 334 pages
...meridian passing through it, and when the sun comes to that meridian it is noon or mid-day at that place. The longitude of a place is its distance east or west from the first meridian, or the one from which we agree to count. As nature supplies no particular spot... | |
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