 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - Geography - 1854 - 332 pages
...Mere visible. Elevate the globe to the latitude of the place where you are, and get it due N. and S. Bring the sun's place in the ecliptic for the given day to the meridian, and set the index to XII. at noon; turn the globe westward, tiH the index points to the given... | |
 | Thomas Turner Tate - Physics - 1855 - 442 pages
...meridian altitude at a given place on a given day. EULE. Rectify the globe for the latitude of the place ; bring the sun's place in the ecliptic for the given day to the brass meridian ; count the number of degrees on the brass meridian, between that place and the horizon for tlie meridian... | |
 | William Stopford Kenny - Geography - 1856 - 240 pages
...Icing given, to find what Hour it is at any other Place. ' Bring the place where the hour is given, to the brass meridian, and set the index of the hour circle to that hour that is given ; then revolve the globe till the other place comes under the meridian, and... | |
 | Thomas St. Clair Macdougal - 1857 - 192 pages
...given, to find what hour it is at any other place. Rule. — Bring the place where the hour is given to the brass meridian, and set the index of the hour circle to the given hour; then turn the globe till the other place comes under the meridian, when the index will... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - Geography - 1861 - 364 pages
...there visible. Elevate the globe to the latitude of the place where you are, and set it due N. and 8. Bring the sun's place in the ecliptic for the given day to the meridian, and set the index to XII. at noon; turn the globe westward, till the index points to the... | |
 | Robert Sullivan - Geography - 1862 - 432 pages
...there visible. Elevate the globe to the latitude of the place where you &re, and set it due N. and S. Bring the sun's place in the ecliptic for the given day to the meridian, and set the index to XII. at noon; turn the globj westward, till the index points to the... | |
 | Elias Loomis - Astronomy - 1866 - 384 pages
...culmination of a star for any given day and place. Elevate the pole to the latitude of the place ; bring the sun's place in the ecliptic for the given day to the meridian, and set the hour index to 12. Turn the globe until the star comes to the eastern horizon,... | |
 | James Ferguson, Ebenezer Henderson - Astronomers - 1867 - 534 pages
...rectifg this Globe. — Elevate the pole to the latitude of the place ; then bring the Sun's place to the ecliptic for the given day to the brass meridian, and set the hour-index to XII. at noon, that is, to the upper XII. on the hour-circle, keeping the globe in that... | |
 | Alexander Stewart - 1869 - 530 pages
...place (not in the frigid zones'), to find what other day of the year is of the same length. RULE. — Bring the sun's place in the ecliptic for the given day to the brass meridian, and observe the degree above it ; turn the globe till some other point of the ecliptic falls under tue... | |
 | Elias Loomis - Astronomy - 1870 - 398 pages
...culmination of a star for any given day and place. Elevate the pole .to the latitude of the place; bring the sun's place in the ecliptic for the given day to the meridian, and set the hour index to 12. Turn the globe until the star comes to the eastern horizon,... | |
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Bring the sun's place in the ecliptic for the given day to the meridian, and set the index to XII. at noon : turn the globe westward till the index points to the given hour ; then the surface of the globe represents the exact face of the heavens at the... 
