Indoor games and recreations : a popular encyclopædia for boys (1888)
Stables, Gordon, 1840-1910, author · London : Religious Tract Society, 56 Paternoster Row, 65 St. Paul's Churchyard and 164 Piccadilly · leaf 406
o, and cutting the line o c in points, counting from o, 10, 20, 30, 40, etc. Now draw straight lines from d through these points, cutting the arc b c in the points 10, 20, 30, etc., and with your compasses, with one leg on b, protract these distances on to the line b c, which will be the scale of… … Now with your compasses take from the scale of latitudes the latitude of the place where you wish to erect your dial. Suppose you are in London, put one leg of the compasses on the point b, and the other leg on the point in the scale of latitudes marking 51 J degrees, which is the latitude of…
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