Hand-book of the Terrestrial Globe, Or, Guide to Fitz's New Method of Mounting and Operating Globes: Designed for the Use of Families, Schools, and Academies |
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Hand-Book of the Terrestrial Globe: Or, Guide to Fitz's New Method of ... Ellen Eliza Fitz No preview available - 2016 |
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allel beneath the day-circle beneath the twilight-circle brass horizon brass meridian Bring December 21 Bring the given Bring the meridian calendar disk backward calendar disk forward calendar index celestial equator celestial sphere continuous day continuous night date opposite day and night days or months December 21 duration earth earth's surface east equinox Estimate in days Exercises farthest point Find the beginning find the Length frigid zone given day given parallel given period given place hours long June 21 lasting from sunset latitude length of day longest day longitude March 21 meridian altitude motion noon north frigid zone northern parallel note the date number of degrees opposite the calendar opposite the solar orbit period of alternate period of continuous period of twilight plane polar circles right ascension ring arrangement SECOND METHOD September 21 solar index solstice sun is vertical sun's declination Turn the calendar Turn the globe twilight lasting vernal equinox
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Page 10 - A sphere is a solid terminated by a curved surface, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre.
Page 17 - The right ascension of a celestial body is the arc of the celestial equator measured eastward (counterclockwise as viewed from the north) from the vernal equinox to the point where the hour circle of the body intersects the equator. Right ascension is generally expressed in time from o to 24 hours.