Brearley, Harry Chase, 1870-, Ingersoll, Robt. H., & Bro · New York, Pub. by Doubleday, Page & Co. for Robert H. Ingersol & Bros. · leaf 393
A time-telling term originatingor at least made common during the GreatWar. Word commonly used In a militarysense to indicate a secret Instant of timefrom which an attack in its various stagesis scheduled. Zodiac—An imaginary belt 16 degreesin width, spread equally on both sidesof the ecliptic (q.… … tell the time by looking at the sun and thestars. Only their whole problem wasvastly complicated by the daily rotationof the earthon its axis,which ofcourse makesthe whole skyseem to turnin the oppo-site directionday by day.The earthturns in thesamedirectionthat it goesround the sun, from West to…
Time measurements · Clocks and watches
Internet Archive · Library of Congress · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
![An illustration from Cosmographia in qvatvor libros distribvta summo ordine, miraqve facilitate, ac breuitate ad magnam Ptolemæi mathematicam constructionem, ad vniuersamque astrologiam institutens. Francisco Barocio ... avtore. Cum præfatione eiusdem autoris, in qua perfecta quidem astrologiæ diuisio, & enarratio autorum illustrium, & voluminum ab eis conscriptorum in singulis astrologiæ partibus habetur: Joannis de Sacrobosco verò 84 errores, et alij permulti suorum expositorum, & sectatorum ostenduntur. rationibusq[uam] redarguuntur. Præcesserunt etiam quædam communia mathematica, necnon arithmetica, & geometrica principia, nonnullæq[uam] propositiones, de quibus in toto opere sæpe fit mentio: ac demum locupletissimus index eorum, quæ ipsa Cosmographia continentur .. (1585)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-cosmographiainqv00baro-204-73.webp)
