An Easy Grammar of Geography: For the Use of Schools, Upon Goldsmith's Much Approved Plan : Illustrated with an Atlas of Seven Maps, Bound SeparatelyParaclete Potter for himself, and for S. Potter & Company, booksellers, Philadelphia, 1823 - 208 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 8 - Congress of the United States, entitled "an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the time therein mentioned." And also to an act entitled "an act supplementary to an act entitled an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the...
Σελίδα 147 - ... the globe to a latitude equal to the sun's declination. Then to all the places just under the western side of the horizon, the sun is rising ; to those just above the eastern horizon, the sun is about to set ; to all those under the upper half of the brazen meridian it is noon, and to all those under the lower half it is midnight. Ex. — Thus, when it is ten in the morning at London, the longest day, the sun is rising...
Σελίδα 8 - District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit...
Σελίδα 15 - The latitude of places upon maps is expressed by the figures which run up and down the sides. If the figures increase upward, the latitude is north ; if they increase downward, the latitude is south.
Σελίδα 144 - Rectify for the latitude and sun's place, (Prob. vm ) and turn the sun's place to the eastern edge of the horizon, and the index will point to the hour of rising : then bring it to the western edge of the horizon...
Σελίδα 161 - The longitude of the heavenly bodies is reckoned on the ecliptic, from the first point of Aries, eastward round the globe. The longitude of the sun is what is called, on the terrestrial globe, the sun's place.
Σελίδα 164 - Rectify the globe to the latitude of the place ; bring the sun's place in the ecliptic to the igeridian, and set the index to 12.
Σελίδα 25 - States, bounded north by Massachusetts, east by Rhode Island, south by Long Island Sound, and west by New York ; area, 4,674 square miles ; pop.
Σελίδα 164 - If you turn the globe about its axis, all those stars which do not descend below the horizon never set at that place ; and those which...
Σελίδα 147 - Find, by the last problem, the place to which the sun is vertical at the given hour, and bring the same to the meridian, and rectify the globe to a latitude equal to the sun's declination. Then to all the places...