 | Richard Henry Stoddard - Naturalists - 1809 - 518 pages
...moment when it passes the meridian. This cir cumstance is known to the people of every nation situated beyond the tropics, or in the southern hemisphere....hour of the night, in different seasons, the Cross is erect or inclined. It is a timepiece which advances very regularly nearly four minutes a day, and... | |
 | William Cowherd - 1818 - 728 pages
...form of which recalls the sign of the baptismal covenant) is almost perpendicular at the moment when it passes the meridian. This circumstance is known...every nation that lives beyond the tropics, or in the soi'thern hrinisplure. It lias bren ob served at what hour of the night, in different seasons, the... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - Natural history - 1822 - 762 pages
...right ascension, it follows hence, that the constellation is almost perpendicular at the moment when it passes the meridian. This circumstance is known...hemisphere. It has been observed at what hour of the night, iu different seasons, the Cross of the South is erect, or inclined. It is a time-piece that advances... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - English prose literature - 1822 - 290 pages
...perpendicular at the moment when it passes the meridian ; this circumstance is known to all the inhabitants of the southern hemisphere. It has been observed at what...hour of the night, in different seasons, the cross is erect or inclined ; and this is a time-piece which advances very regularly nearly four minutes a... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1824 - 452 pages
...nearly the same right ascension, it follows that the constellation is almost vertical at the moment when it passes the meridian. This circumstance is known...beyond the tropics, or in the southern hemisphere. It is known at what hour of the night, in different seasons, the Southern Cross is ereT;t,"or inclined.... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...the same right ascension ; it follows, that the constellation is almost vertical at the moment when it passes the meridian. This circumstance is known...beyond the tropics, or in the southern hemisphere. It is known at what hour of the night, in different seasons, the Southern Cross is erect, or inclined.... | |
 | William Hone - 1825 - 842 pages
...the same right ascension, it follows, that the constellation is almost vertical at the morrent when it passes the meridian. This circumstance is known...beyond the tropics, or in the southern hemisphere. It is known at what hour of the night, in different seasons, the southern cross is erect, or inclined.... | |
 | William Hone - Calendars - 1868 - 846 pages
...the same right ascension, it follows, that the constellation is almost vet tical at the moment when it passes the meridian. This circumstance is known...beyond the tropics, or in the southern hemisphere It is known at what hour of the night, in different seasons, the southern cross is erect, or inclined.... | |
 | William Hone - 1826 - 882 pages
...the same right ascension, it follows, that the constellation is almost ver. tical at the moment when ocility which too often accompany maturer swinehood...proved a glutton, a sloven, an obstinate, disagreea is known at what hour of the night, in different seasons, the southern cross is erect, or inclined.... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1826 - 892 pages
...the same right ascension, it follows, that the constellation is almost vertical at the moment when it passes the meridian. This circumstance is known...beyond the tropics, or in the southern hemisphere. It is known at what hour of the night, in different seasons, the southern его« is erect, or inclined.... | |
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It is a time-piece that advances very regular nearly four minutes a day ; and no other group of stars exhibits to the naked eye, an observation of time so easily made. 
