 | William Schmolz - 1859 - 196 pages
...interval of time between two successive transits of the sun over the same meridian ; and the hour angle of the sun is called Solar Time, This is the most...intervals between the successive returns of the sun to the meridian are not exactly equal but depend upon the variable motion of the sun in right ascension. The... | |
 | United States Naval Observatory. Nautical Almanac Office - 1860 - 568 pages
...interval of time between two successive transits of the sun over the same meridian ; and the hour angle of the sun is called Solar Time. This is the most...intervals between the successive returns of the sun to the meridian are not exactly equal, but depend upon the variable> motion of the sun in right ascension.... | |
 | Nathaniel Bowditch - 1888 - 704 pages
...determining the longitude involves a calculation to deduce the apparent time first. Art. 214. But, since the intervals between the successive returns of the sun to the same meridian are not equal, apparent time cannot be taken as a standard. The apparent day varies in length from two causes... | |
 | William Ralston Balch - 1895 - 836 pages
...interval of time between two successive transits of the sun over the same meridian, and the hour angle of the sun is called solar time. This is the most...the same meridian are not exactly equal, owing to th« varying motion of the earth round the sun, and to the obliquity of the ecliptic. The intervals... | |
 | William Ralston Balch - 1895 - 828 pages
...time between twt successive transits of the sun over the same meridian, and the hour angle of the cun is called solar time. This is the most natural and...the same meridian are not exactly equal, owing to itu varying motion of the earth round the sun, and to the obliquity of the ecliptic. The intervals... | |
 | 1900 - 662 pages
...the obliquity of the ecliptic and the varying motion of the Earth in its orbit, the intervals between successive returns of the Sun to the same meridian are not exactly equal, and consequently ordinary clocks and chronometers cannot be regulated to true solar time. Afean Solar... | |
 | Nathaniel Bowditch - 1906 - 670 pages
...the longitude by the sun involves a calculation to deduce the apparent time first. Since, however, the intervals between the successive returns of the sun to the same meridian are not equal, apparent time can not be taken as a standard. The apparent day varies in length from two causes:... | |
 | 1907 - 294 pages
...the obliquity of the ecliptic and the varying motion of the Earth in its orbit, the intervals between successive returns of the Sun to the same meridian are not exactly equal, and consequently ordinary clocks and chronometers can not be regulated to true solar time. Mean Solar... | |
 | Nathaniel Bowditch - 1931 - 870 pages
...the longitude by the sun involves a calculation to deduce the apparent time first.^ Since, however, the intervals between the successive returns of the sun to the same meridian are not equal, apparent time can not be taken as a standard to which clocks and chronometers may t>e regulated.... | |
 | United States Naval Observatory. Nautical Almanac Office - 1891 - 582 pages
...transits of the sun over the same meridian ; and the hour.angle of the sun is called Solar Time. ‘L'his is the most natural and direct measure of time. But...the same meridian are not exactly equal, owing to time varying motion of the earth around the sun, and to the obhiquity of the ecliptic. The intervals... | |
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... of the sun is called Solar Time. This is the most natural and direct measure of time. But the intervals between the successive returns of the sun to the same meridian are not exactly equal, owing to the varying motion of the earth around the sun,... 
