Familiar lessons on astronomy ; designed for the use of children and youth .. (1848)
Fowler, Lydia F. (Lydia Folger), 1823-1879 · New York, Fowlers & Wells · leaf 26
PARALLELS. 11. The LONGITUDE of a place is its distance fromsome standard meridian, reckoned on the Equator.The meridian generally taken as a standard, is that ofGreenwich, near London. 12. Tropics are parallels of latitude that pass aroundthe earth, twenty-three and one half degrees from… … 10. What are parallels of latitude ? What is meant by the latitude ofa place ? 11. What is the longitude of a place ? What meridian is gen-erally used as a standard? 12. What are the tropics? What is theTropic of Cancer ? What tropic lies south of the Equator ? ZONES. 17 13. There are five Zones.…
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