 | George Atwood - Physics - 1784 - 284 pages
...meafured by an arc of the meridian intercepted between them. XIX. The azimuth of a ftar is meafured by an arc of the horizon, intercepted between the meridian and a vertical circle 'which pafles through the ftar. XX. A vertical circle, which cuts the meridian at right angles, is... | |
 | William Enfield - Astronomy - 1811 - 476 pages
...horizon in the cardinal points East and West* DBF. DEF. XV. The Azimuth of a heavenly body, is the arc of the horizon intercepted between the meridian and a vertical circle passing through that body ; it is eastern or western as the body is east or west of the meridian. SCHOL- The azimuth... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - Physics - 1826 - 254 pages
...the angle at the centre of the earth measured by that arc. 13. The Azimuth of a heavenly body, is the arc of the horizon intercepted between the meridian and a vertical circle passing through that body ; it is eastern or western as the body is east or west of the meridian. 14. The Amplitude... | |
 | Physics - 1829 - 322 pages
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 | Edinburgh encyclopaedia - 1830 - 830 pages
...vol. viii. p. 183. (w) AZIMUTH, in Astronomy, an Arabic word, employed by astronomers to denote the arc of the horizon intercepted between the meridian and a vertical circle passing through the celestial body whose azimuth is measured. Let it be required to find the sun's azimuth at Greenwich,... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Physics - 1832 - 402 pages
...remedy for them, Professor Barlow, of the * Azimuth as applied to a star or any celestial object, is an arc of the horizon intercepted between the meridian and a vertical circle passing through the object. Military Academy of Woolwich, instituted a great number of experiments which resulted in... | |
 | Tobias Ostrander - Astronomy - 1834 - 272 pages
...sun enters Libra, which is about the 21st or 22d of September. Azimuth, of the celestial bodies, is an arc of the horizon, intercepted between the meridian and a vertical circle passing through the body. Azimuth Compass, an instrument for finding the magnetic azimuth, or amplitude of a celestial... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Physics - 1835 - 374 pages
...is a variety of the azimuth compass. * Azimuth as applied to a star or any celestial object, i? nn arc of the horizon intercepted between the meridian and a vertical circle passing through the object. Local Attraction of vetselt. 858. A few years since it was observed, for the first time,... | |
 | Thomas Squire - Astronomy - 1836 - 332 pages
...be drawn through their centres, perpendicular to their planes. AZIMUTH, of the celestial bodies, is an arc of the horizon, intercepted between the meridian and a vertical circle passing through the body. . i •> AZIMUTH Compass, an instrument for finding the magnetic azimuth, or amplitude of... | |
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Azimuth, of the celestial bodies, is an arc of the horizon intercepted between the meridian and a vertical circle passing through the body. 
