Young, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1834-1908, Young, Anne Sewell, b. 1871., ed · Boston, New York [etc.] Ginn and Company · leaf 72
rawn from the observerto the centre of the earth; which line,.evidently does not coin-cide Avith the direction of gravity, since the earth is notspherical. In Fig. 19, the angle MNQ is the astronomical latitude of the pointM. (It is also the geographical latitude, provided the station errorat that… … 58 SURFACE AND VOLUME OF THE EARTH. [§ 94 The geocentric degrees are longer near theequator than near the poles, and it is worthnoticing that if we form a table like thatof Art. 89, giving the length of each degreeof geographical latitude from the equatorto the pole, the same table, read…
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