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" ... then bring the given place to the meridian, and set the index to the given hour. Turn the globe till the index points to... "
A grammar of geography, by J. Goldsmith - Page 207
by sir Richard Phillips - 1868
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Cornell's High School Geography: Forming Part Third of a Systematic Series ...

Sarah S. Cornell - 1857 - 420 pages
...VEETIOAL. Rule. — Find the sun's declination (by Prob. XII. ), and mark it on the brass meridian ; then bring the given place to the meridian, and set the index to the given hour. Torn the globe till the index points to twelve at noon, and the place exactly under the sun's declination...
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Descriptive outlines of modern geography, and a short account of Palestine ...

Thomas St. Clair Macdougal - 1857 - 192 pages
...find where the Sun is then vertical. Rule. — Having found the sun's decimation by the last problem, bring the given place to the meridian, and set the index to the given hour; then turn the globe till the index points to xn, noon. All the places under the meridian have noon...
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Cornell's High School Geography: Forming Part Third of a Systematic Series ...

Sophia S. Cornell - 1861 - 414 pages
...THEN VERTICAL. Rule.—Find the sun's declination (by Prob. XII.), and mark It on the brass meridian; then bring the given place to the meridian, and set the index to the given hour. Torn the globe till the index points to twelve at noon, and the place exactly under the sun's declination...
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A compendium of modern geography

Alexander Stewart - 1864 - 684 pages
...to find where the sun is then vertieal. RULE. — Find the sun's deelination ; hring the given plaee to the meridian, and set the index to the given hour ; turn the glohe till the index points to xn. noon : — all the plaees then under the meridian have noon at the...
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An abstract of general geography

John White - 1864 - 82 pages
...declination for the given day ; bring the given place to the brass meridian, and set the hour-circle to the given hour ; turn the globe till the index points to 12 noon,* then under the degree of the sun's declination on the meridian is the place which has the...
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A new introduction to geography

John Olding Butler - 1866 - 208 pages
...— Bring the sun's place, found in the ecliptic for that day, to the brass meridian, and note its declination ; then bring the given place to the meridian, and set the index to 12 at noon ; then, if the given time be before noon, turn the globe westward as many hours as it wants...
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