A high-school astronomy: in which the descriptive, physical, and practical are combined .. (1853)
Mattison, Hiram, 1811-1868 · New York, F. J. Huntingdon [etc.] · leaf 28
24 ASTRONOMY. Latitude upon the earth is distance either North orSouth of the Equator, and is reckoned each way towardthe Poles in Degrees, Minutes, and Seconds. As the distance from the Equator to the Pole cannot be more than a quarter of acircle, or 90°, it is obvious that no place can have more… … Parallels of Latitude are circleseither North or South of the Equator,and running parallel to it. We may imagine any conceivable number of parallelsbetween the Equator and the Poles, though upon mostmaps and globes they are drawn only once for every ten The Tropics are two parallels oflatitude,…
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