 | Geography - 1820 - 352 pages
...TERRESTRIAL GLOBE. PROBLEM \.-Tofind the latitude of any place. Turn the globe, and bring the place to the graduated edge of the brazen meridian ; and the degree on the meridian is the latitude north or south, as it may be on the north or south side of the equator. Thus the latitude of London... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - Geography - 1821 - 256 pages
...Astronomy. PROBLEM I.— To find the latitude of any place. Rule. _ Turn the globe, and bring the place to the graduated edge of the brazen meridian, and the degree on the meridian is the latitude north or south, as it may be on the north or south side of the equator. J7.r. — Thus die latitude... | |
 | Joseph Emerson Worcester - Atlases - 1822 - 354 pages
..., PROBLEM I. Tojind the latitude, of any place. Turn the globe, and bring the place to the engraven edge of the brazen meridian ; and the degree on the meridian is the latitude, north or south, as it may be on the north or south side of the equator. Thus the latitude of London... | |
 | Jacob Willetts - Geography - 1831 - 220 pages
...Degrees. . PnoBLEM I.— To find the latitude of any pluce. Turn the globe and bring the place to tlie graduated edge of the brazen meridian ; and the degree on the meridian is the latitude north or south as jt may be on the north or south sjde of tlae equator. •' J ]E,xamples.—\ . What... | |
 | Aaron Arrowsmith - 1832 - 546 pages
...find the Latitude and Longitude of any given place. Turn the Globe until the given place comes exactly under the graduated edge of the Brazen Meridian *, and the degree on the meridian (reckoning from the Equator) is the latitude required, which will be either North or South, according... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1835 - 630 pages
...compass. Problem 1. — To find the latitude oj any place.-rRu\e. Turn the globe till the place comes to the graduated edge of the brazen meridian, and the degree on the meridian with which the place corresponds is the latitude north or south, as it may be north or south of the... | |
 | Barnum Field - Geography - 1840 - 168 pages
...the equinoctial points f What is Aries termed ? Libra? What is the zenith of a place ? The nadir f PROBLEMS. To find the latitude of any place. Turn...Of Rio Janeiro ? To find the longitude of a place. Bring the place to the brazen meridian, and the degree on the Equator shows the longitude from London... | |
 | 1844 - 636 pages
...Problem 1. — To find the latitude of any place. — Rule. Turn the globe till the place comes to the graduated edge of the brazen meridian, and the degree on the meridian with which the place corresponds is the latitude north or south, as it may be north or south of the... | |
 | Joseph Emerson Worcester - Classical geography - 1844 - 356 pages
...GLOBE. PROBLEM i. To find the Latitude of any Place. Turn the globe, and bring the place to the engraven edge of the brazen meridian ; and the degree on the meridian is the latitude, north or south, as it may be on the north or south side of the equator What is the latitude of Alexandria... | |
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Turn the globe, and bring the place to the graduated edge of the brazen meridian ; and the degree on the meridian is the latitude north or south, as it may be on the north or south side of the equator. 