 | Robert Gibson - 1811 - 580 pages
...its extremities are called Poles. That towards the most remote parts of Europe is called the North Pole, and its opposite the South Pole. The Earth's...being produced will point out the Celestial Poles. i The Equator is a great circle on the Earth, every point of which is equally distant from the Poles... | |
 | Robert Gibson - 1814 - 558 pages
...its extremeties are called Poles. That towards the most remote parts of 'Europe is called the North Pole, and its opposite the South Pole. The Earth's...parts, called Hemispheres : that having the North Pole in its centre is called the Northern Hemisphere — arid the other, the Southern Hemisphere- The... | |
 | Robert Gibson - 1821 - 594 pages
...its extremities are called Poles. That towards the most remote parts of Europe is called the North Pole, and its opposite the South Pole. The Earth's...from the Poles; it divides the Earth into two equal pails, called Hemispheres: that having the North Pole in its centre is called the Northern Hemisphere... | |
 | Thomas Kerigan - 1828 - 776 pages
...and distance from that place, to any other given place. The Equator is a great circle circumscribing the earth, every point of which is equally distant from the poles ; thus dividing the, globe into two equal parts, called hemispheres : that towards the North Pole is... | |
 | Thomas Kerigan - 1838 - 804 pages
...and distance from that place, to any other given place. The Equator is a great circle circumscribing the earth, every point of which is equally distant from the poles ; thus dividing the globe into two equal parts, called hemispheres : that towards the North Pole is... | |
 | Robert Gibson, James Ryan - 1839 - 452 pages
...its extremities arc called poles. That towards the most remote parts of Europe is called the north pole, and its opposite the south pole. The earth's...equator is a great circle on the earth, every point of wllich is equally distant from the poles ; it divides the earth into two equal parts, called hemispheres... | |
 | John William Norie - 1840 - 184 pages
...equator and the first meridian. The EQUATOR, by seamen called the line, is a great circle on the earth, equally distant from the Poles : it divides the earth...parts, called HEMISPHERES ; that having the North Pole in its centre is called the Northern Hemisphere, and the other the Southern Hemisphere. MERIDIANS... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1845 - 444 pages
...course and distance from that place to any other place. The Equator is a great circle circumscribing the earth, every point of which is equally distant from the poles, thus dividing the globe into two equal parts, called hemispheres; that towards the North Pole is called... | |
 | John William Norie - 1852 - 844 pages
...24 hours, which causes the vicissitude of day and night. The EQUATOR is a great circle on the earth equally distant from the Poles. It divides the earth...equal parts, called HEMISPHERES; that having the North Pole in its centre, is called the Northern Hemisphere; and the other the Southern Hemisphere. MERIDIANS... | |
 | Thomas Liddell Ainsley - 1875 - 416 pages
...eequare to divide into equal parts), called also by seamen the Line, is a great circle circumscribing the earth, every point of which is equally distant from the poles, being 90° from each, as W M' E ; and dividing the globe into two equal parts called hemispheres ;... | |
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AY and night arise from the circ uoarotatiou of the Earth. That imaginary line about which the rotation is performed, is called the Axis, and its extremeties are called Poles. That towards the most remote parts of 'Europe is called the North Pole, and... 