| 1885 - 552 pages
...negative vote ; the delegates from France and Brazil abstained from voting. The third resolution was, " That from this meridian, longitude shall be counted...longitude being plus and west longitude minus." This reversal of the uniform custom of navigators in regard to the sign for the application of longitude... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1885 - 688 pages
...Domingo. Abstaining from voting — Brazil, France. Ayes, 22 ; noes, I ; abstaining, 2. III. " Resolved, That from this meridian longitude shall be counted...— Chili, Liberia, Colombia, Mexico, Costa Rica, Paraguay, Great Britain, Russia, Guatemala, Salvador, Hawaii, United States, Japan, Venezuela. In the... | |
| Royal Astronomical Society - 1885 - 572 pages
...Great Brita Guatemala Hawaii Italy Japan Liberia In the negativeSan Domin Abstaining from Brazil Ayes III. " That from this meridian longitude shall be counted in two directions up to 180 degrees, cast longitude being plus and west longitude minus." This resolution was adopted by the following vote... | |
| 1885 - 890 pages
...of trie transit instrument a' the Observatory of Greenwich as the iuiüal mer:i:.-m lor longitude. III. That from this meridian longitude shall be counted in two directions up to 180°, east longitude bcinif pl-'f, and west longitude Ъе\пц minut, IV. That the Conference proposée... | |
| Royal Astronomical Society - 1833 - 572 pages
...negative — San Domingo. Abstaining from voting — Brazil France Ayes, 22 ; noes, i ; abstaining 2. III. " That from this meridian longitude shall be counted in two directions np to 180 degrees, cast longitude being plus and west longitude minus." This resolution was adopted... | |
| 1886 - 540 pages
...negative vote ; the delegates from France and Brazil abstained from voting. The third resolution was, " That from this meridian, longitude shall be counted in two directions up to 180 degrees, east from which to count the hours originated with Ptolemy. This practice is not, as some distinguished... | |
| Canadian Institute - 1886 - 466 pages
...Observatory at Greenwich, as the Initial Meridian for Longitude. — [Ages, 22 ; noes, 1 ; abstaining, £.] III. — That from this Meridian Longitude shall be counted in two directions up to 1 80 degrees, East Longitude being plun and West Longitude minat, — [Ages, 14 ; noes, 5 ; abstaining... | |
| 1887 - 434 pages
...shall be the initial meridian for longitude. 2. Longitude shall be counted from this initial meridian in two directions up to 180 degrees, east longitude being plus, and west longitude being minus. 3. On and after the first day of the first month of the twenty-first year of Meiji (January... | |
| 1891 - 604 pages
...negative : San Domingo. Abstaining from voting : Brazil, France. Ayes, 22 ; noes, 1 ; abstaining, 2. III. " That from this meridian longitude shall be...resolution was adopted by the following vote : — In the affi:mative : Hawaii, Japan, Liberia, Mexico, Paraguay, In the negative : Spain, Sweden, Abstaining... | |
| William Robert Martin - 1899 - 474 pages
...Greenwich as the initial meridian for longitude, and fourteen voted in favour of counting the longitude in two directions up to 180 degrees — east longitude being plus, and west longitude minus. The equator is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, termed degrees, each containing sixty nautical... | |
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