in your dividers (54 43) = 54f, and from C, as a centerwith that distance, describe the semicirele B D HE (Fig. 55).Take 0 A = the 2d element, and describe the semidiameterof the earths shadow. From C, the center of the shadow,draw On at right angles to B E, the ecliptic, above BE, whenthe latitude… … Take the moons latitude from the scale of equal parts,and set it off from C to n. Through n draw DnB, themoons path, so that the line shall incline to BE, the ecliptic,by an angle equal to the 3d element. Conceive the moons is the hourly motion of the moon from the sun (28 31), and the…
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