 | John Hubbard Wilkins - Astronomy - 1822 - 158 pages
...ecliptic and the other on the equator; and both from the same point, viz. the beginning of Aries. 59. Let us return to the consideration of terrestrial...degrees of latitude are all of the same absolute length, containing'60 geographical, and 69| statute miles of 320 rods ? Thus, if two places on the same meridian,... | |
 | Jedidiah Morse, Sidney Edwards Morse - Atlases - 1822 - 398 pages
...shadows are in every 24 hours of that period, successively cast towards every point of the horizon. The latitude of a place is its distance from the equator measured in degrees on the meridian. If the place lies north of the equator, it is in north latitude ; if south... | |
 | John Hubbard Wilkins - Astronomy - 1829 - 202 pages
...on the ecliptic and the other on the equator ; and both from the same point, viz. the beginning of Aries. 65. Let us return to the consideration of terrestrial...consequently equally large, it is obvious that a degree, or ,^v part, of one is equal to the same part of another. Hence degrees of latitude are all of the same... | |
 | John Radford Young - Astronomy - 1833 - 286 pages
...when they are of contrary denominations the difference is found by adding the one to the other. 6. The latitude of a place is its distance from the equator, measured on the meridian of the place. Latitude, therefore, is north or south, according to the pole towards which... | |
 | Charles William Hackley - Trigonometry - 1838 - 338 pages
...when they are of contrary denominations the difference js found by adding the one to the other. 6. The latitude of a place is its distance from the equator, measured on the meridian of the place. Latitude, therefore, is north or south, according to the pole towards which... | |
 | John William Norie - 1840 - 184 pages
...first meridian which passes through their capital, or principal observatory. OF LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE. The LATITUDE of a place is its distance from the equator, measured by an arch of a meridian contained between the equator and the given place : it is called either north... | |
 | Charles Davies - Navigation - 1841 - 414 pages
...of longitudes when they are of the same name, and to their sum, when they are of different names. 7. The latitude of a place is its distance from the equator, measured on the meridian of the place, and is north or south according as the place lies north or south of the... | |
 | James Thomson - Geometry, Analytic - 1844 - 146 pages
...mendian ; but nature points out no particular meridian, in preference to another, for this purpose. (15) The latitude of a place is its distance from the equator measured on its meridian. ( 16 ) If a plane touch the earth, its intersection with the celestial sphere is called the sensible... | |
 | John William Norie - Nautical astronomy - 1852 - 844 pages
...at length given way to the more precise terms of latitude and longitude. OF LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE. The LATITUDE of a place is its distance from the equator, measured by an arch of a meridian contained between the equator and the given place . it is called either north... | |
 | John Drew - Astronomical instruments - 1853 - 386 pages
...The connexion of navigation with astronomy demands a few observations on the subject of that science. The latitude of a place is its distance from the equator measured in degrees. This circle may be looked upon as a natural division of the earth into two hemispheres,... | |
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Let us return to the consideration of terrestrial latitude and longitude. As the latitude of a place is its distance from the equator measured on its meridian, and all meridians are great circles and consequently equally large, it is obvious that a degree,... 
