That this universal day is to be a mean solar day ; is to begin for all the world at the moment of mean midnight of the initial meridian, coinciding with the beginning of the civil day and date of that meridian ; and is to be counted from zero up to twenty-four... Science - Page 4061884Full view - About this book
| Lynda Jessup - 2001 - 312 pages
...average solar day. However, the universal day was 'to begin for all the world at the moment of mean midnight of the initial meridian, coinciding with the beginning of the civil day and date of that meridian.'8 With the adoption of Greenwich as the point from which all time zones would henceforth... | |
| Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1885 - 958 pages
...this universal day is to be a mean solar day ; is to begin for all the world at the moment of mean midnight of the initial meridian, coinciding with...beginning of the civil day and date of that meridian ; and is to be counted from zero up to twenty-four hours." 6. " That the Conference expresses the hope that... | |
| American Metrological Society - 1889 - 948 pages
...this universal day is to be a mean solar day ; is to begin for all the world at the moment of mean midnight of the initial meridian, coinciding with...beginning of the civil day and date of that meridian ; and is to be counted from zero up to twenty-four hours. VI. — That the Conference expresses the hope... | |
| Joseph Whitaker - 1886 - 634 pages
...to be a mean solar day ; is to begin for all the world at the moment of mean midnight of the initiai meridian, coinciding with the beginning of the civil day and date of that meridian, and is to be counted from zero up to twenty-four hours." This on being put to the vote, after some discussion,... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1885 - 650 pages
...declaring the universal day to be the mean solar day to commence for all the world at the moment of mean midnight of the initial meridian, coinciding with the beginning of the civil day, and to be counted from oh. up to 24)1., a proposition which, as already mentioned, had been debated at... | |
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