 | James Smith - Industrial arts - 1815 - 684 pages
...pnrpose, that of determining the longitude of places on the earth, with créât facility and certainty. The longitude of a place is its distance east or west from another, reckoned in degrees of the equator, and it can always he ascertained with certainty, provided... | |
 | John Bonnycastle - Astronomy - 1816 - 490 pages
...become visible and invisible alternately. LIZARD, a northern constellation, consisting of twelve stars. LONGITUDE of a place, is its distance east or west from the first meridian, reckoned in degrees, minutes, &c. upon the equator. LONGITUDE of a star or planet,... | |
 | Jedidiah Morse - Geography - 1818 - 384 pages
...to be tn north latitude ; if it lie between the Equator and the Smrth pole, it is in south latitude. The Longitude of a place is its distance, east or west, from some fixed meridian, measured on the equator. On the equator, a degree of longitude is equal to 60... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - Marine insurance - 1822 - 1008 pages
...a manner that the parts of her eastern and western limbs becomes visicle and invisible alternately. Longitude of a place, is its distance east or west from the first meridian, reckoned in degrees, minutes, &c. upon the equator. Longitude of a star or planet,... | |
 | James Ryan - Astronomy - 1827 - 408 pages
...and reduced latitudes shall be pointed out, when we come to consider the true figure of the earth. 3. Longitude of a place is its distance east or west from the first meridian, reckoned in degrees, minutes, &c. upon the equator. The choice of a first meridian... | |
 | Hervey Wilbur - Astronomy - 1834 - 172 pages
...plane of the Ecliptic. LINE OF THE APSIDES, a line joining the aphelion and pert helion of a planet. LONGITUDE OF A PLACE, is its distance, east or west, from the first meridian, reckoned in degrees, minutes, &c. upon the LONGITUDE of a star, or other heavenly body,... | |
 | Barnum Field - Geography - 1837 - 166 pages
...poles. Every 'place ha* its meridian. When the meridian of any place is opposite the sun, it is noon at that place. The Longitude of a place is its distance east or west from, some fixed meridian, reckoned in degrees and minutes. The longitude of all places mentioned in this... | |
 | Barnum Field - Geography - 1840 - 168 pages
...poles. Every place has its meridian. When the meridian of any place is opposite the sun, it is noon .it that place. The Longitude of a place is its distance east or west from some fixed meridian, reckoned in degrees and minutes. The longitude of all places mentioned in this... | |
 | John Adams (teacher of mathematics.) - 1843 - 166 pages
...half of a globe or sphere, when it is cut through its centre in the plane of one of its great circles. LONGITUDE of a place is its distance, east or west, from the first meridian, reckoned in degrees, minutes, «fee., upon the equator. LATITUDE of a place is its... | |
 | Charles Butler - 1846 - 222 pages
...north latitude; and places in the line of the Tropic of Capricorn, 23£ degrees of south latitude. 21 . The Longitude of a place is its distance, east or west, from some other given point on the earth's surface. 22. The first Meridian, or line whence longitudes are... | |
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... but every place is supposed to have a meridian passing through it, and when the sun comes to that meridian it is noon or mid-day at that place. The longitude of a place is its distance east or west from the first meridian, or the one from which we... 
