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... circle , whether greater or less , is divided into 360 degrees ; for the antients supposed that the Ecliptic , or circle which the sun appears annually to describe in the heavens , was completed in 360 days . Each day's advance in this ...
... circle , whether greater or less , is divided into 360 degrees ; for the antients supposed that the Ecliptic , or circle which the sun appears annually to describe in the heavens , was completed in 360 days . Each day's advance in this ...
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... circle which the sun appears to de- scribe in the heavens , sets out from the Equator , and con- tinues to rise , through the first quadrant , to the Tropic * A straight line passing through the centre of any circle till it meets the ...
... circle which the sun appears to de- scribe in the heavens , sets out from the Equator , and con- tinues to rise , through the first quadrant , to the Tropic * A straight line passing through the centre of any circle till it meets the ...
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... circle . † The Tropics are two parallels to the Equator drawn through the Ecliptic , at those points where the ... circles are those circles which are supposed to be described by the Poles of the Ecliptic revolving round the poles of the ...
... circle . † The Tropics are two parallels to the Equator drawn through the Ecliptic , at those points where the ... circles are those circles which are supposed to be described by the Poles of the Ecliptic revolving round the poles of the ...
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... circles we have described . Thus , between the Poles and Polar Circles are the two Frigid Zones , between the Frigid ... circle parallel to it . * Thus the English measure their longitude East and West of London ( or rather Greenwich ) ...
... circles we have described . Thus , between the Poles and Polar Circles are the two Frigid Zones , between the Frigid ... circle parallel to it . * Thus the English measure their longitude East and West of London ( or rather Greenwich ) ...
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... circles of latitude , which are parallel to the Equator , must also continually decrease in like manner ; therefore , the number of miles in each parallel of latitude must . con- tinually decrease . But the number of degrees in every circle ...
... circles of latitude , which are parallel to the Equator , must also continually decrease in like manner ; therefore , the number of miles in each parallel of latitude must . con- tinually decrease . But the number of degrees in every circle ...
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Page 216 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Page 248 - Caesar et omnis luli progenies magnum caeli ventura sub axem. 790 hic vir, hic est, tibi quem promitti saepius audis, Augustus Caesar, divi genus, aurea condet saecula qui rursus Latio regnata per arva Saturno quondam, super et Garamantas et Indos proferet imperium ; iacet extra sidera tellus, extra anni solisque vias, ubi caelifer Atlas axem umero torquet stellis ardentibus aptum.
Page 48 - Arctic, on the East by the Pacific, and on the South by the Indian Ocean ; its Western boundary, which separates it from Europe, has already been described.
Page 105 - Portus ab accessu ventorum immotus et ingens 570 ipse; sed horrificis iuxta tonat Aetna ruinis interdumque atram prorumpit ad aethera nubem, turbine fumantem piceo et candente favilla, attollitque globos flammarum et sidera lambit: interdum scopulos avolsaque viscera montis 575 erigit eructans liquefactaque saxa sub auras cum gemitu glomerat fundoque exaestuat imo.
Page 105 - Scylla latus, laevum implacata Charybdis Obsidet, atque imo barathri ter gurgite vastos Sorbet in abruptum fluctus, rursusque sub auras Erigit alternos et sidera verberat unda. At Scyllam caecis cohibet spelunca latebris, 425 Ora exsertantem et naves in saxa trahentem. Prima hominis facies et pulchro pectore virgo Pube tenus, postrema immani corpore pistrix Delphinum caudas utero commissa luporum.
Page 250 - Temple (so celebrated in antiquity) of Jupiter Hammon, said to have been founded by Bacchus, in gratitude to his father Jupiter, who appeared to him, when perishing with thirst, in the form of a ram, and shewed him a fountain.