An introduction to astronomy : designed as a text book for the students of Yale College (1846)
Olmsted, Denison, 1791-1859, Yale College (1718-1887) · New York : Collins, Brother & Co. · leaf 56
ermining the horizontal parallax, is asfollows : Let O, O, (Fig. 7,) be two places on the earth, situated underthe same meridian, at a great distance from each other ; one place,for example, at the Cape of Good Hope, and the other in the northof Europe. The latitude of each place being known, the… … accurately taken, namely, ZY and -^S- • ZY; then the angles ZOM andZOM, and of course their sup-plements COM,COM are found.Then in the quadrilateral figureCOMO, we have all the anglesand the two radii, CO, CO,whence by joining 00, the sideOM may be easily found. Hav-ing CO and OM, we may…
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![An illustration from Nicolai Copernici Torinensis De reuolutionibus orbium coelestium, libri VI : Habes in hoc opere iam recens nato, & aedito, studiose lector, motus stellarum, tam fixarum, quàm erraticarum, cum ex ueteribus, tum etiam ex recentibus obseruationibus restitutos: & nouis insuper ac admirabilibus hypothesibus ornatos. Habes etiam tabulas expeditissimas, ex quibus eosdem ad quoduis tempus quàm facillime caculare poteris. Igitur eme, lege, fruere. [Line in Greek] (1543)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-nicolaicopernici00cope-298-193.webp)
