An Introduction to the Use of the Globes, and the Orery: Also, the Application of Astronomy to Chronology ... Adapted to the Instruction and Entertainment of Such Persons as are Not Previously Versed in Mathematic Science. With an Appendix, Attempting to Explain the Account of the First and Fourth Days Work of Creation in the First Chapter of Genesis |
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... Epact , Eafter , & c . ac- cording to the Gregorian Account or New Style ; with an Explication of the Reafon of each Rule . Adapted to The INSTRUCTION and ENTERTAINMENT of fuch Persons as are not previously verfed in Mathe- matic ...
... Epact , Eafter , & c . ac- cording to the Gregorian Account or New Style ; with an Explication of the Reafon of each Rule . Adapted to The INSTRUCTION and ENTERTAINMENT of fuch Persons as are not previously verfed in Mathe- matic ...
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... Epact V. Of Epocas , and Æras 124 131 134 139 147 APPENDIX , attempting to Explain the Ac- count of the First and Fourth Days Work of Creation , in the First Chapter of GE- NESIS . 151 An : An EXPLICATION of fome Algebraic , and other ...
... Epact V. Of Epocas , and Æras 124 131 134 139 147 APPENDIX , attempting to Explain the Ac- count of the First and Fourth Days Work of Creation , in the First Chapter of GE- NESIS . 151 An : An EXPLICATION of fome Algebraic , and other ...
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... Era commenced , and the Remainder , if any ; fhews the prefent year of the Cycle ; if there be no Remainder it is the laft Year , which compleats the Cycle . С НА Р. TH CHA P. IV . Of the EPACT . HE 1384 Part III . Of CYCLES ..
... Era commenced , and the Remainder , if any ; fhews the prefent year of the Cycle ; if there be no Remainder it is the laft Year , which compleats the Cycle . С НА Р. TH CHA P. IV . Of the EPACT . HE 1384 Part III . Of CYCLES ..
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... EPACT . HE Epact is a Number arifing from the Excess of the Solar Year above the Lunar , of 12 fynodical Months , which Excess is 11 Days ; or the Epact of any Year expreffes the Number of Days , from the last new ... EPACT . Of the Epact.
... EPACT . HE Epact is a Number arifing from the Excess of the Solar Year above the Lunar , of 12 fynodical Months , which Excess is 11 Days ; or the Epact of any Year expreffes the Number of Days , from the last new ... EPACT . Of the Epact.
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... Epact of the prefent Year . Thus to adjust the Lunar Year to the Solar , through the whole Cycle of 19 Years , 12 of them must consist of 12 Synodical Months each , and 7 of 13 , by adding a Month of 30 Days to every Year when the Epact ...
... Epact of the prefent Year . Thus to adjust the Lunar Year to the Solar , through the whole Cycle of 19 Years , 12 of them must consist of 12 Synodical Months each , and 7 of 13 , by adding a Month of 30 Days to every Year when the Epact ...
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Afcenfion Aftronomers alfo alſo Altitude Angle appears Arch Aries Atmoſphere Axis becauſe Cafe called Caufe Cauſe Center Circle Comet confequently Conftellations Cycle Degrees Diameter diftant Diſtance diurnal Motion diurnal Rotation Divifion Dominical Letter Ecliptic Epact equal Equator Equinoctial Equinox expreffed fafter faid fame feems feen feven fhews fhould fince firft firſt fixed Stars folar fome fometimes ftands fubftracted fuch full Moon fuppofe Globe greateſt Heat Heavens Hemiſphere Horizon Hour inferior Conjunction juft Jupiter laft Latitude leffer lefs Light longeſt Day Longitude Lunar meaſured Meridian Miles Month Moon's moſt muft muſt nearer Node Noon Number obferved oblique occafioned Orbit paffing Parallax Planets Pofition Point of Aries Polar Circles Pole prefent PROB Quadrant refpect repreſent rifing round the Earth round the Sun Saturn Seaſons ſeen ſhe Sun's Place Surface Syftem Synodical Month theſe thofe thoſe thro Tropic uſed Venus vernal Equinox vifible Weft whofe Zenith Zodiac
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Page 161 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night ; and let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days,
Page 151 - And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
Page 103 - Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
Page 35 - Put the centre of the quadrant of altitude on the pole of the ecliptic, and its graduated edge on the star ; then the arch of the quadrant, intercepted...
Page 30 - The hour being given at any place, to tell what hour it is in any other part of the world : Bring the given place to the meridian, and set the...
Page 30 - For the zenith : screw the quadrant of altitude on the meridian, at the given degree of latitude, counting from the equator towards the elevated pole, and the globe will be rectified for the zenith.
Page 31 - X.), and mark it on the brass meridian ; then bring the given place to the meridian, and set the index to the given hour. Turn the globe till the index points to...
Page 152 - Heaven and the earth ; and the earth was without form, and void, and darknefs was upon the face of the deep ; and the fpirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
Page 157 - Let there and there was light. 4 And God faw the light, that it was good : and God divided the light from the darknefs. 5 And God called the light Day, and the darknefs he called Night: and the evening and the morning •were the firft day.
Page 130 - To find the Dominical Letter. Divide the cent'ries by four; and twice what does remain Take from six; and then add to the number you gain The odd years and their fourth ; which, dividing by seven, What is left take from seven, and the letter is given.