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 1761Matthew Carey, 1809 - 533 頁 |
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... equator , and at the same distance from the north pole that the tropics are from the equator . A circle similarly situate round the south pole , is called the antarctic circle . These are also frequently termed the north - polar , and ...
... equator , and at the same distance from the north pole that the tropics are from the equator . A circle similarly situate round the south pole , is called the antarctic circle . These are also frequently termed the north - polar , and ...
第 12 頁
... equator , the eclip- tic , meridians , horizon , azimuth - circles , and circles of celestial longitude . Small circles , are those which divide the sphere into two unequal parts ; the chief of which are , parallels of altitude and of ...
... equator , the eclip- tic , meridians , horizon , azimuth - circles , and circles of celestial longitude . Small circles , are those which divide the sphere into two unequal parts ; the chief of which are , parallels of altitude and of ...
第 14 頁
... 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 ( 14 )
... 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 ( 14 )
第 17 頁
... equator , whence equal arches of the former , in which the earth moves , will not correspond to equal arches of the latter , on which time is measured . Equator , that great circle which cuts the axis of rotation at right angles ...
... equator , whence equal arches of the former , in which the earth moves , will not correspond to equal arches of the latter , on which time is measured . Equator , that great circle which cuts the axis of rotation at right angles ...
第 18 頁
... equator , included between the 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 ...
... equator , included between the 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 ...
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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 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 Sun's parallax suppose tides tion total ingress transit transit of Venus tropic tropic of Cancer tropic of Capricorn true turns round Venus Venus's visible
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第 60 頁 - ... wisely ordered by the Author of nature; for if the axis of this planet were inclined any considerable number of degrees, just so many degrees round each pole would in their turn be almost six of our years together in darkness. And as each degree of a great circle on Jupiter contains...
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