The Accomplished Tutor; Or, Complete System of Liberal Education:: Containing the Most Improved Theory and Practice of the Following Subjects: 1. English Grammar, and Elocution. 2. Penmanship, and Short Hand. 3. Arithmetic, Vulgar and Decimal ... 18. Drawing, Engraving, and Painting. And Other Useful Matter. Embellished with Twenty Copper-plates and Six Maps, Neatly Engraved, Volume 2H. D. Symonds, Paternoster Row; and Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, Poultry., 1806 - Arithmetic - 458 pages |
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Page 112
... moved entirely round them every 24 hours , when the fun is in their hemifpheres , and fo far declined towards their pole , as not to fet for feveral days . 21. The horizon is properly a double circle ; one of the horizons being called ...
... moved entirely round them every 24 hours , when the fun is in their hemifpheres , and fo far declined towards their pole , as not to fet for feveral days . 21. The horizon is properly a double circle ; one of the horizons being called ...
Page 115
... move eastward in this ecliptic , and with fuch a motion as to go quite round it in the time that the fphere is turned round weftward upon its axis 366 times ; this ftud will reprefent the fun changing its place every day in the ecliptic ...
... move eastward in this ecliptic , and with fuch a motion as to go quite round it in the time that the fphere is turned round weftward upon its axis 366 times ; this ftud will reprefent the fun changing its place every day in the ecliptic ...
Page 116
... moved round by the hand . There is alfo a particular contrivance , for caufing the moon to move in her own orbit . On the axis of the small globe is fixed a flat celestial meridian , which may be fet directly over the meridian of any ...
... moved round by the hand . There is alfo a particular contrivance , for caufing the moon to move in her own orbit . On the axis of the small globe is fixed a flat celestial meridian , which may be fet directly over the meridian of any ...
Page 200
... move round fome primary planet , as their focus , in the fame manner as the primary planets move round the fun . Such are the moon , which moves round the earth , and the four moons of Jupiter , the feven moons of Saturn , and the fix ...
... move round fome primary planet , as their focus , in the fame manner as the primary planets move round the fun . Such are the moon , which moves round the earth , and the four moons of Jupiter , the feven moons of Saturn , and the fix ...
Page 205
... moves in his orbit is at the ama- zing rate of about 95,000 miles in an hour . The place of his aphelion is 14 degrees 13 minutes of Sagittary ; the place of his afcending node is 15 degrees 47 minutes of Taurus , and confequently that ...
... moves in his orbit is at the ama- zing rate of about 95,000 miles in an hour . The place of his aphelion is 14 degrees 13 minutes of Sagittary ; the place of his afcending node is 15 degrees 47 minutes of Taurus , and confequently that ...
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