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" The hour of the day at any place being given, to find what time it then is at any other place. Bring the given place to the brazen meridian, and set the index, to the given hour; then turn the globe, until... "
Ferguson's Lectures on Select Subjects, in Mechanics, Hydrostatics ... - Page 306
by James Ferguson - 1814
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A grammar of general geography, by J. Goldsmith, revised by E. Hughes

Richard Phillips (sir.) - 1851
...find what hour it is in any other place. Rule. — Bring the place at which the hour is given to the meridian, and set the index to the given hour ; then turn the globe till the other place comes to the meridian, and the index will show the required time.s * If the difference...
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Problems on the Maps and Globes, Part 1

B. S. Booth - Geography - 1852 - 32 pages
...meridian passing through the deg. ol longitude thus found will be the places required. By the Globe. Bring the given place to the brazen meridian, and set the index to the hour at that place; then turn the globe till the index points to noon, or tlie upper 12, or any other...
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A Manual of Astronomy and the Use of the Globes ...

Henry Kiddle - 1854 - 154 pages
...day being given at any place, to find all the places at which it is any other given hour. RULE. — Bring the given place to the brazen meridian, and set the index to the hour of that place ; then turn the globe, till the index points to the other given hour ; and all places...
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Kenny's School geography; or, Earth and Heaven

William Stopford Kenny - Geography - 1856 - 240 pages
...given, to find all those Places where it is any other given Hour. Bring the given place to the brass meridian, and set the index to the given hour ; then turn the globe till the index points to the other proposed hour, and all those places which are then under the brass...
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Cornell's High School Geography: Forming Part Third of a Systematic Series ...

Sarah S. Cornell - Geography - 1857 - 420 pages
...WHAT HOUR IT IS IN ANY OTHER PLACB 1,•xlc. — Bring the place at which the hour is given to the meridian, and set the index to the given hour; then turn the globe till the other place comes to the meridian, and the index will show the required time. PROBLEM XI....
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Descriptive outlines of modern geography, and a short account of Palestine ...

Thomas St. Clair Macdougal - 1857 - 192 pages
...vertical. Rule. — Having found the sun's decimation by the last problem, bring the given place to the meridian, and set the index to the given hour; then turn the globe till the index points to xn, noon. All the places under the meridian have noon at the given hour; and...
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