Astronomy Explained Upon Sir Isaac Newton's Principles: And Made Easy to Those who Have Not Studied Mathematics : to which are Added, a Plain Method of Finding the Distances of All the Planets from the Sun, by the Transit of Venus Over the Sun's Disc, in the Year 1761 : an Account of Mr. Horrox's Observation of the Transit of Venus in the Year 1639 : And, of the Distances of All the Planets from the Sun, as Deduced from Observations of the Transit in the Year 1761 |
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... meridian , is that of a body when on the meridian . Amplitude of a celestial body , is an arch of the horizon inter- cepted between the east or west points thereof , and that point where the body rises or sets . The true amplitude of a ...
... meridian , is that of a body when on the meridian . Amplitude of a celestial body , is an arch of the horizon inter- cepted between the east or west points thereof , and that point where the body rises or sets . The true amplitude of a ...
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... meridian of the place and the azimuth- circle passing through the body . The true azimuth of a body may readily be calculated by the resolution of a sphe- ric triangle ; and then the difference between this , and that observed by a ...
... meridian of the place and the azimuth- circle passing through the body . The true azimuth of a body may readily be calculated by the resolution of a sphe- ric triangle ; and then the difference between this , and that observed by a ...
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... meridian passing through the body , and intercepted between it and the equator ; and is north or south according as the body is north or south of the equator . Degree , the 360th part of the circumference of any ( 14 )
... meridian passing through the body , and intercepted between it and the equator ; and is north or south according as the body is north or south of the equator . Degree , the 360th part of the circumference of any ( 14 )
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... meridian of the place and that passing through the body . Immersion , the beginning of an eclipse , or of an occultation . Inclination of the axis of a planet , the angle which it makes with the axis of the plane of its orbit ...
... meridian of the place and that passing through the body . Immersion , the beginning of an eclipse , or of an occultation . Inclination of the axis of a planet , the angle which it makes with the axis of the plane of its orbit ...
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... meridian . Minute , the 60th part of an hour , or of a degree . Month , the 12th part of a year . It is variously distinguish- ed according to circumstances , viz . Lunar illuminative month , the time between the first ap- pearance of ...
... meridian . Minute , the 60th part of an hour , or of a degree . Month , the 12th part of a year . It is variously distinguish- ed according to circumstances , viz . Lunar illuminative month , the time between the first ap- pearance of ...
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angle appears April Aries ascending node beginning of egress body circle Clock conjunction degrees diameter diurnal diurnal motion Dominical letter Earth's axis Earth's centre eclipse equal equator equinoctial equinox fixed stars full Moon globe goes round half heavens horizon horizontal parallax inclined Julian period July June Jupiter latitude Leap-Year London longitude lunar lunation March mean Anomaly mean distance mean new Moon Mercury meridian miles minutes Moon's orbit motion noon north pole observed opposite parallel path penumbra planets plate polar circles revolution right line rising round the Earth round the Sun satellites Saturn seconds seen semidiameter Sept shewn side signs solar south pole subtract Sun and Moon Sun's centre Sun's disc Sun's mean suppose tides tion total ingress transit transit of Venus tropic tropic of Cancer tropic of Capricorn true turns round Venus Venus's