A high-school astronomy: in which the descriptive, physical, and practical are combined .. (1859)
Mattison, Hiram, 1811-1868 · New York, Mason brothers · leaf 242
in a contrary manner. Hencethe mariner, in finding the latitude at sea, always adds the parallax, and subtracts therefraction, to and from the suns observed altitude, in order to obtain the true altitude,and thence the latitude. 541. Parallax? True place of a celestial body? Apparent? When… … %$£§ ASTRONOMT. 543. The principles of parallax are of great import-ance to astronomy, as they enable us to determine thedistances of the heavenly bodies from the earth, the mag-nitudes of the planets, and the dimensions of their or-bits. The suns horizontal parallax being accurately known,the…
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