 | 1833 - 634 pages
...observation of either limb of the Sun, when one only has been observed, to the transit of the centre. The Equation of Time is the difference between Apparent and Mean Time, and therefore serves for the conversion of either time into the other. The numbers here given, show,... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1838 - 160 pages
...Moon's mean Motion, depends upon the situation of the moon's apogee and nodes with respect to the sun. Equation of Time, is the difference between apparent and mean time, or between the sun's mean motion and right ascension. Equatoral, a very useful instrument in Astronomy,... | |
 | John Rowbotham - 1838 - 404 pages
...sign = between them the comparison is called an equation; thus 5 + 2 = 7, or x + 2 = 7, where x =5. Equation of time is the difference between apparent and mean time, or between the sun's mean motion and right ascension. E-qua'-tor, s. — cequator, that which makes equal... | |
 | 1841 - 630 pages
...observation of either limb of the Sun, when one only has been observed, to the transit of the centre. The Equation of Time is the difference between Apparent and Mean Time, and therefore serves for the conversion of either time into the other. The numbers here given, show,... | |
 | 1842 - 624 pages
...observation of either limb of the Sun, when one only has been observed, to the transit of the centre. ч The Equation of Time is the difference between Apparent and Mean Time, and therefore serves for the conversion of either time into the other. The numbers here given, show,... | |
 | 1843 - 634 pages
...observation of either limb of the Sun, when one only has been observed, to the transit of the centre. The Equation of Time is the difference between Apparent and Mean Time, and therefore serves for the conversion of either time into the other. The numbers here given, show,... | |
 | 1846 - 646 pages
...observation of either limb of the Sun, when one only has been observed, to the transit of the centre. The Equation of Time is the difference between Apparent and Mean Time, and therefore serves for the conversion of either time into the other. The numbers here given, show,... | |
 | George Coleman (F.R.A.S.) - 1846 - 488 pages
...effects of precession, aberration, and nutation ; whereas Table XIV. only gives their mean place». EQUATION OF TIME, is the difference between Apparent and Mean Time ; or, which is precisely the same thing, it is the difference between the time shewn by a correct sun-dial,... | |
 | 1850 - 668 pages
...observation of either limb of the Sun, when one only has been observed, to the transit of the centre. The Equation of Time is the difference between Apparent and Mean Time, and therefore serves for the conversion of either time into the other. The numbers here given, show,... | |
 | Great Britain. Nautical Almanac Office - 1852 - 676 pages
...observation of either limb of the Sun, when one only has been observed, to the transit of the centre. The Equation of Time is the difference between Apparent and Mean Time, and therefore serves for the conversion of either time into the other. The numbers here given, show,... | |
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The numbers here given, show, for Greenwich Apparent Noon, the distance of the mean Sun from the meridian, or the portion of time to be added to, or subtracted from, (according to the precept at the head of the column,) Greenwich... 
