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A System of Questions in Geography: Adapted to Any Modern Atlas : Embracing ... - Page 184
by David Harrison Pierson - 1854 - 189 pages
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A New Treatise on the Use of the Globes, Or, A Philosophical View of the ...

Thomas Keith - 1811 - 388 pages
...place being given, to fnd what hour it is at any other place. Rule Bring the place, at which the time is given, to the brass meridian, and set the index of the hour circle to 14 ;* turn the globe till the other place comes to the meridian, and the hours passed over by the index...
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A Compendious Treatise on the Use of the Globes, and of Maps: Compiled from ...

John Lathrop - 1812 - 218 pages
...declination for the given day, and elevate the pole to that declination ;: bring the place at which the hour is given to the brass meridian, and set the index of the hour circle to twelve ; then, if the given time be before noon, turn the globe westward as many hours as it wants...
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An Easy Grammar of Geography: For the Use of Schools, Upon Goldsmith's Much ...

Jacob Willetts - 1815 - 228 pages
...find tahat hour it is at any other ftlace* Bring the place, where the hour is given, to the brazen meridian, and set the index of the hour circle to that hour, then turn the globe till the proposed place come under the nu. idian, and the index will lKiint to the present hour at that place....
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A New Treatise on the Use of the Globes: Or, A Philosophical View of the ...

Thomas Keith - 1819 - 380 pages
...place being given, to find ivhut hour it is at any other place. Rule. Bring the place at which the time is given to the brass meridian, and set the index of the hour circle io 12 ;* turn the globe till the other place comes to the meridian, and the hours passed over by the...
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Geography: Or, A Description of the World

1820 - 352 pages
...find vihat hour it it at any other place * Bring the place, where the hour is given, to the brazen meridian, and set the index of the hour circle to that hour, then turn the globe till the proposed place come under the meridian, and the index will point to the present hour at that place....
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Geography: Or, A Description of the World. In Three Parts. Part I ...

Daniel Adams - 1821 - 354 pages
...hour it is at any other place * Bring the place, where the hour is given, to the brazen merid. ian, and set the index of the hour circle to that hour, then turn the globe till the proposed place come under the meridian, and the index will point to the present hour at that place....
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A New Treatise on the Use of the Globes; Or, A Philosophical View of the ...

Thomas Keith - 1821 - 408 pages
...place being given, tofind what hour it is at any other place. RULE. Bring the place, at which the time is given to the brass meridian, and set the index of the hour circle to 12*; turn the globe till the other place comes to the meridian, and the hours passed over by the index...
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A New Treatise on the Use of the Globes: With Notes and Observations ...

James M'Intire - 1823 - 232 pages
...quadrant of altitude on the Brass meridian over the degree of the sun's declination, bring the given place to the- brass meridian, and set the index of the hour circle {o 1 2; turn the globe eastward till the given place comes to the horizon, and the hours passed over...
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An Introduction to Ancient and Modern Geography: To which are Added Rules ...

Jacob Abbot Cummings - 1825 - 216 pages
...any place being given to find what Hour it is at any other place. Rule. Bring the place, where the hour is given, to the brass meridian, and set the...circle to that hour, then turn the globe till the proposed place comes under the meridian, and the index will point to the present hour at that place....
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A New System of Geography: Ancient and Modern : for the Use of Schools ...

Jedidiah Morse, Sidney Edwards Morse - 1826 - 350 pages
...given, to find •what hour it is at any other place. Bring the place where the hour is given to the meridian, and set the index of the hour circle to that hour ; then turn the globe till the place where (he hour is required comes under the meridian, and the index will point to the hour at...
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