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 95
ths of its parallel), determines, with its latitude, itsexact position. Distance from the first meridian, so meas-ured, is called Longitude. Places east of the first merid-ian are said to be in east longitude, and those west of thefirst meridian in west longitude. As the distance halfround the… … ^icojfCancer^A tude laid d°WI1 10° 0Y 15° &Vart *[..-- i ..W Besides these, 23-J° from the ^\_^^^^r77^^jS equator on either side are the jvopic off Capricorn—:] Tropics,—the Tropic of Cancer ^X^jmt^^c^^y^ north of the equator, the Tropic of Capricorn south of it.™ o0 m n*lt ° ri At the same…
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