 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1843 - 524 pages
...northern and southern tropics comprehends every part of :he earth at which the sun is ever vertical. The northern tropic is called the tropic of Cancer, and the southern that of Capricorn, since the sun, when vertical at places in the Srst, is at the commencement of the... | |
 | Samuel Augustus Mitchell - 1844 - 346 pages
...or 1637 miles, north and south from the Equator. t/'ircies. 119. What are the names of the Tropics ? The northern tropic is called the Tropic of Cancer, and the southern is called the Tropic of Capricorn. Point out on map of the World, No. 1., the Tropics of Cancer and... | |
 | Samuel Augustus Mitchell - Geography - 1851 - 348 pages
...degrees, or 1637 miles, north and south from the txjuator. 119. What are the names of the Tropies? The northern tropic is called the Tropic of Cancer, and the southern is called the Tropic of Capricorn. Point out on map of the World, No. 1., the Tropics of Cancer ind... | |
 | George Woolworth Colton - Geography - 1880 - 110 pages
...lines are parallel.] PARALLEL MM 7. The principal parallels are the Tropics and 'Polar Circles. 8. The northern tropic is called the Tropic of Cancer;...and the southern tropic, the Tropic of Capricorn. 9. The polar circle near the north pole is called the Arctic Circle ; that near ihe south pole, the... | |
 | A. Ansted - Naval art and science - 1919 - 340 pages
...is contained, the distance of each from the equator being equal to the sun's greatest declination. The northern tropic is called the tropic of Cancer, and the southern one that of Capricorn, from their touching the ecliptic in the first points of those stages. " (Brande... | |
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S. of the sun's verticality to the earth's surface, the distance being in each case 23V2°; the northern tropic is called the Tropic of Cancer, and the southern the Tropic of Capricorn. 