 Longitude is the distance of a place east or west from the first meridian. The ecliptic is a circle round the middle region of the globe, corresponding to the sun's path in the heavens.  Rudiments of modern geography - Page 10by Alexander Reid - 1851 - 122 pagesFull view - About this book
 | David Morrice - Naval education - 1801 - 236 pages
...latitude. The extent of latitude north or south, is 180 degrees, half the circumference of the globe. That longitude is the distance of a place east or west from the first meridian, which is generally that of London, and has an 0 at both ends of the line, the figures 10, 20, 30, and... | |
 | Thomas Hogg - 1806 - 130 pages
...distance of the meridian of any place from the first meridian, arid is reckoned upon the equator, either east, or west from the first meridian.* * The first meridian is that which passe» through some temarkable place, from which longitude is estimated. The ancients reckoned eastward... | |
 | John White - Great Britain - 1836 - 234 pages
...through the equator. The meridian that passes through London or Greenwich is called the First Meridian. Longitude is the distance of a place east or west from the first meridian : the greatest longitude is one hundred and eighty degrees. Latitude is the distance of a place north or... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1840 - 132 pages
...distance of a place north or south from the Equator ; consequently places on the Equator have no latitude. Longitude is the distance of a place east or west from the first meridian. The lines drawn from pole to pole are called meridians. Two opposite meridians divide the globe into eastern... | |
 | Brothers of the Christian schools of Ireland - 1843 - 120 pages
...north, above; the south, below. Latitude* is the distance of a place north or south from the equator. Longitude is the distance of a place east or west from the first meridian, f The earth has two motions, one round its own axis in 24 hours, the other round the sun in a year... | |
 | Brothers of the Christian schools of Ireland - 1845 - 138 pages
...the left hand side the west.* Latitude-]- is the distance of a place north or south from the equator. Longitude is the distance of a place east or west from the first meridian. The earth has two motions ; one round its own axis in 24 hours, the other round the sun in a year : the... | |
 | Alexander Reid - 1849 - 82 pages
...temperate zones, and two frigid zones. The lines drawn from pole to pole are called meridians. The circle formed by two meridians divides the globe into...a place east or west from the first meridian. The ecliptic is a circle round the middle region of the globe, corresponding to the sun's path in the heavens.... | |
 | S. Wilson - 1849 - 156 pages
...south, from the equator towards either pole ; therefore no place can have more than 90° of latitude. Longitude is the distance of a place, east or west, from the first meridian or noon line, which in English maps is drawn through Greenwich, near London. Lines of latitude are... | |
 | Thomas Bowman (M.A.) - Geography - 1850 - 152 pages
...number of degrees corresponding to that meridian, which number will be the longitude required. NB — Longitude is the distance of a place east or west from the First Meridian, which in England is drawn through Greenwich ; and is measured on the Equator, or a parallel. The greatest... | |
 | Modern geography - 1852 - 176 pages
...turns on its own axis, when any one of these is opposite to the sun it is mid-day along this line. Longitude is the distance of a place east or west from the FIRST MERIDIAN. Every place on the earth has its meridian ; hut that which is marked FIRST on our maps passes through... | |
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