Elements of astronomy: accompanied with numerous illustrations, a colored representation of the solar, stellar, and nebular spectra, and celestial charts of the northern and the southern hemisphere (1875)
Lockyer, Norman, Sir, 1836-1920 · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 94
ded to define the position of a place. Accordingly,some meridian is taken,—in this country either the merid- struction of the gyroscope. What is done to the instrument when the experi-ment is performed ? 167. What circles do we find on a terrestrial globe ? Whatis their object? 168. What is… … 88 THE EAKTH. ian of Washington, or that which passes through Green-wich, near London, where the principal observatory ofEngland is situated; and the distance of the place fromthis First Meridian, as it is called, measured in degrees(or 360ths of its parallel), determines, with its latitude,…
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