| William Channing Woodbridge - Geography - 1836 - 544 pages
...latitude,) and set the index to twelve ; then bring the same degree of Cancer to the eaat part of the wooden horizon, and the index will show the time of the sun's rising. If the same degree be brought to the western edge, the index will show the setting; which being doubled,... | |
| Jesse Olney - Geography - 1835 - 298 pages
...meridian, and set the index of the hour circle to 12. Turn the globe westward till the son's place comes to the horizon, and the index will show the time of the sun's setting; these hours taken from 12 will give the rising. At what time does the sun rise and set at... | |
| John Hubbard Wilkins - Astronomy - 1836 - 214 pages
...find the sun's place in the ecliptic (by Prob. X.) and bring it to the meridian, and set the index to 12 ; bring the sun's place to the eastern edge of the horizon, and the index will show the hour of rising ; bring it to the western edge of the horizon, and the index will show the hour of setting.... | |
| Jesse Olney - Geography - 1836 - 294 pages
...meridian, and set the index of the hour circle to 12. Turn the globe westward till the sun's place comes to the horizon, and the index will show the time of the sun's setting ; these hours taken from 12 will give the rising. At what time does the sun rise and set at... | |
| Barnum Field - Geography - 1837 - 166 pages
...north pole; if south latitude, elevate the south pole. How is the globe rectified to a place ? * turn the Sun's place to the eastern edge of the horizon, and the index will point to the hour of rising—then bring it to the western edge of the horizon, and the index will... | |
| Barnum Field - Geography - 1840 - 168 pages
...Sun rises and sets any day in the year. Rectify the globe for the latitude and Sun's place, and turn the Sun's place to the eastern edge of the horizon, and the index will point to the hour of rising—then bring it to the western edge of the horizon, and the index will... | |
| Scottish school-book assoc - 1840 - 132 pages
...the horizon, — the index will show the hour of rising ; next bring the sun's place to the western edge of the horizon, and the index will show the time of setting. The hour of sun-rise doubled gives the length of the night, and the hour of sunset doubled... | |
| Joseph Emerson Worcester - Classical geography - 1844 - 356 pages
...sets a little before six in the evening. Rectify for the latitude and sun's place (Prob. vm.),and turn the sun's place to the eastern edge of the horizon, and the index will point to the hour of rising; then bring it to the western edge of the horizon, and the index Wai show... | |
| John Rorke - 1844 - 188 pages
...cosmically, acronicatty, and heliacally. For the cosmical rising and setting — Rectify for the latitude; bring the sun's place to the eastern edge of the horizon, and all the stars then along that edge rise cosmically, and those along the western edge set costnically.... | |
| Joseph Emerson Worcester - Classical geography - 1844 - 362 pages
...what Point of the Compass. Rectify for the latitude and sun's place (Prob. vnr.), and turn the sun'-i place to the eastern edge of the horizon, and the index will point to the hbur of rising ; then bring it to the ^»«fprn edge of the horizon, and the index will... | |
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