Lessons in astronomy including uranography. A brief intoductory course without mathematics (1896)
Young, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1834-1908 · Boston, London, Ginn and company · leaf 317
hiqhcarries the bearings upon which the globe revolves. Thingsare so arranged, or ought to be, that the mathematical axisof the globe is exactly in the same plane as the graduated face 304 APPENDIX. [§400 of the ring, which is divided into degrees. The meridian ringis held underneath the globe by a… … Fig. 83. — The Celestial Globe. angle of 23}° at F(as the figure is drawn, V happens to be theautumnal equinox, not the vernal), and each of these circles isdivided into degrees. The equinoctial and solstitial coluresare also always represented. As to the other circles, usagediffers. The ordinary…
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