10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AMPHISCIAN»
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amphiscian in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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On the Shoulders of Giants: The Great Works of Physics and ...
SHADOWS. ARE. There are differences between the midday shadows on
account of which some people are called periscian, others amphiscian, and still
others heteroscian. The periscian are those whom we might call "circumumbratile
," ...
2
A Survey of the Almagest: With Annotation and New Commentary ...
Therefore parallels N08 1-6 are called amphiscian (amphiskios = throwing
shadows both ways) while N° 7 is the first of the heteroscian parallels (
heteroskios = throwing shadows one way only). The first 25 parallels are defined
by time ...
Alexander Jones, Olaf Pedersen,
2010
3
American State Papers. The federalist: by Alexander ...
And it is one of the amphiscian parallels, since the sun is twice at the zenith for
those living under it and twice makes the gnomons shadowless at noon when it is
79J^° from the summer tropic on either side. And so for 159° of its passage the ...
Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison,
1978
4
The Major writings of Ptolemy, Nicolaus Copernicus, Johannes ...
And it is one of the amphiscian parallels, since the sun is twice at the zenith for
those living under it and twice makes the gnomons shadowless at noon when it is
791/2° from the summer tropic on either side. And so for 159° of its passage the ...
Johannes Kepler, Ptolemy, Nicolaus Copernicus,
1985
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great books of the western world
And it is one of the amphiscian parallels, since the sun is twice at the zenith for
those living under it and twice makes the gnomons shadowless at noon when it is
79^° from the summer tropic on either side. And so for 159° of its passage the ...
6
Great books of the Western world
And it is one of the amphiscian parallels, since the sun is twice at the zenith for
those living under it and twice makes the gnomons shadowless at noon when it is
793^° from the summer tropic on either side. And so for 159° of its passage the ...
Robert Maynard Hutchins, Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc,
1952
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Great books of the Western World
And it is one of the amphiscian parallels, since the sun is twice at the zenith for
those living under it and twice makes the gnomons shadowless at noon when it is
7934° from the summer tropic on either side. And so for 159° of its passage the ...
Robert Maynard Hutchins, Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc, University of Chicago,
1952
fall on one side or the other, north or south, but not both); and the zone between
the tropics is “amphiscian” (i.e. shadows fall different ways, north or south, at
different times of the year). But, as matter of human interest, there are (according
to ...
9
The Works of Francis Rabelais
... that maugre longitudes and latitudes, and all the variations of the zones, the
periaecian people, and antoecian, amphiscian, he- teroscian, and periscian,
have oft tendered and re* ceived mutual visits to, and from other, ujjon all the
climates.
Du Chat, Motteux, Ozell,
1807
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Gargantua and Pantagruel:
... yea, insuch sort have interviews beenmade by the assistance of this sacred
herb, that, maugre longitudes and latitudes, and all the variations of the zones,the
Periaecianpeople,and Antoecian, Amphiscian, Heteroscian, andPeriscian hadoft
...
François Rabelais & Burton Raffel,
2014