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الصفحة 131 - It divides the earth into two equal parts, which are called the northern and southern HEMISPHERES. LATITUDE is the distance of a place north or south from the equator.
الصفحة 134 - ... add the longitudes together for their difference. NOTE. — In adding together two longitudes, should their sum exceed 180 degrees, subtract it from 360 degrees, and the remainder will be the correct difference of longitude. EXAMPLES. 2. What is the difference of longitude between the city of Washington, whose longitude is 77° 16' west, and Paris, whose longitude is 2° 20
الصفحة 132 - Longitude is the distance of a place east ' or west from the FIRST MERIDIAN. The...
الصفحة 137 - Divide the difference of longitude expressed in degrees, minutes, and seconds, by 15 ; the quotient will be the difference of time in hours, minutes, and seconds.
الصفحة 133 - Rotterdam, &e. ; (3.) Cummin's Island, China, &c. ; (4.) Nova Scotia ; (5.) Cape St. Vincent, Portugal, &c. PROBLEM IV. To find all those places which have the same longitude as a given place. RULE. Bring the given place to the brass meridian ; all places under the edge of the brass meridian, from pole to pole, have the same longitude. The people living in all those places which have the same longitude, have noon and all other hours of the day alike. EXAMPLES. 2. What inhabitants of the earth...