 | David Jennings - Astronomical models - 1766 - 218 pages
...Meridian, and fet the Hour-Index to the given Hour ; then, by turning the Globe, bring any Place to the Meridian, and the Index will point to the Hour at that Place. PROS. VI. The Day and Hour at any Place being given, to find where the Sun is in the Zenith at that... | |
 | Thomas Hodson - Education - 1802 - 556 pages
...index to the given hour ; then turn the globe, until the place where the hour is required, comes to the meridian ; and the index will point to the hour at that place. PROBLEM VII. Tojind the Suit's Place in the Ecliptic, and his Declination, for any given Day in the... | |
 | Thomas Hodson - Arithmetic - 1806 - 488 pages
...A to the given hour ; then torn the globe, until the place •where the hour is required, comes to the meridian ; and the index will point to the hour at that place. PROBLEM VII. Tojind the Son's Place m the Ecliptic, and his Declination, for any given Day in the Year.... | |
 | J. Goldsmith - 1811 - 184 pages
...hour when th« P'a« i5 east> extracting when it it west. Problems on the Terrestrial Globe. 67 gu'en to the brazen meridian, and set the index of the hour-circle...under the meridian, and the index will point to the present hour at that place. Ex. — Thus, when it is twelve o'clock at noon in London, it is nearly... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - Geography - 1821 - 256 pages
...difference of longitude between two places is known, it is easy to ascertain that difference of time hour-circle to that hour ; then turn the globe, till...under the meridian, and the index will point to the present hour at that place. Ex. — Thus, when it is twelve o'clock at noon in London, it is nearly... | |
 | John Hubbard Wilkins - Astronomy - 1822 - 158 pages
...explain Bring the place, where the hour is given, to the brazen meridian ; set the index to the given hour, then turn the globe till the proposed place comes under the meridian; the index will point to the hour required. .Vole. If the place required be east of the given place,... | |
 | Jacob Abbot Cummings - Cartography - 1825 - 216 pages
...Bring the place, where the hour is given, to the brass meridian, and set the index of the hour circle to that hour, then turn the globe till the proposed...under the meridian, and the index will point to the present hour at that place. Ex. When it is twelve o'clock at noon in London, it is about four in the... | |
 | Jedidiah Morse, Sidney Edwards Morse - Geography - 1826 - 350 pages
...index of the hour circle to that hour ; then turn the globe till the place where (he hour is required comes under the meridian, and the index will point to the hour at that place. Or it may be found by calculation thus : Find the difference of longitude between the two places according... | |
 | John Hubbard Wilkins - Astronomy - 1825 - 151 pages
...place. Bring the place, where the hour is given, to the brazen meridian ; set the index to the given hour, then turn the globe till the proposed place comes under the meridian; the index will point to the hour required. ,^ Note. If the place required be east of the given place,... | |
 | John Hubbard Wilkins - Astronomy - 1829 - 202 pages
...place. Bring the place, where the hour is given, to the brazen meridian ; set the index to the given hour, then turn the globe till the proposed place comes under the meridian ; the index will point to the hour required. Note. If the place required be east of the given place,... | |
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T of the hour circle to that hour ; then turn the globe till the proposed place comes under the meridian, and the index will point to the present hour at that place. 
