A text-book of general astronomy : for colleges and scientific schools (1888)
Young, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1834-1908 · Boston ; London : Ginn & Company · leaf 87
n the equator and the zenith; i.e., the decli-nation of the zenith, which (p. 18) is the latitude of the place. The method is an independent one, like that by the observation of cir-cumpolar stars, requiring no data except those which the observer determinesfor himself. Evidently, however, it does… … A C E Fio. 40. — Latitude by the Gnomon. DETERMINATION OF TIME. 75 of a place by means of its latitude, used its climate instead; the climate(from kXlimx) being the slope of the plane of the celestial equator, the angleAEB, which is the complement of the latitude. It is supposed, indeed known, that…
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