10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EQUINOCTIAL CIRCLE»
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The zodiac circle and the equinoctial circle are great circles; for they bisect one
another. For the beginning of the Ram (Aries) and the beginning of the “Claws” (
Libra) are diametrically opposite to one another and, both being on the
equinoctial ...
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A treatise of astronomy: wherein the diurnal motions of the ...
And upon this Account, and several other such-like Accounts, this Circle is called
the Equinoctial Equinoctial Circle ; the Term Equinoctial de-Circle- noting that the
Day is now equal to the Night. 7. That Pole of the Equinoctial Circle 'which is in ...
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Robert Recorde: Tudor Polymath, Expositor and Practitioner ...
The tropical circles are constructed next by setting the radius of the compass to
66 and a half degrees, as measured on the equinoctial circle, and scribing two
circles using the two poles as centres. The tropical or substantial colure is next ...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, ...
EQUINOX, or ^EQUINOX, in Astronomy, the tine when the sun enters one of the
equinoctial points. The equinoxes happen when the sun is in the equinoctial
circle ; when. of consequence the day» are equal to the night throughout the
world, ...
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A Dictionary of Mechanical Science, Arts, Manufactures, and ...
The equinoxes happen when the sun is in the equinoctial circle ; when of
consequence the days are equal to the nights throughout the world, which is the
case twice a year, viz. about the 21st of March and the 23d of September; the first
of ...
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The History and Practice of Ancient Astronomy
26 The equinoctial circle, for the whole oikumene, is bisected by the horizon, so
that a semicircle is situated above the Earth, and a semicircle below the Earth.
For this reason, the equinoxes are on this circle. 27 The winter tropic circle is cut
by ...
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Encyclopædia britannica: or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, ...
EQUINOX, or Equinox, in astronomy, the time when the fun enters the equinoctial
points. The equinoxes happen when the fun is in the equinoctial circle ; when of
consequence the days are equal to the nights throughout the world, which is the
...
Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig, 1797
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Pantologia. A new (cabinet) cyclopædia, by J.M. Good, O. ...
11, is one-half of the equinoctial circle, making an angle of 23J degrees. .The
tropic of Cancer, and the arctic circle, are each fixed parallel at their proper
distance from the equinoctial. On the northern half of the ecliptic is a brass
semicircle, ...
John Mason Good, Olinthus Gilbert Gregory, 1813
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Pantologia: a new cabinet cyclopaedia, comprehending a ...
EQUINO'CTI ALLY. ad. In the direction of the equinoctial (Brown) . EQUINOX, in
astronomy, the time when the sun enters one of the equinoctial points. The
equinoxes happen when the sun is in the equinoctial circle ; when of
consequence the ...
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The works of Geoffrey Chaucer: compared with the former ...
082. %i. o. 20. Another conclufion to preve the latitude of a region that ye ben in.
UNderstande well that the latytude of any place in a region, is verely the space
betwyxe the sygne of 'hem that dwellen there, and the equinoctial circle, North, ...
Geoffrey Chaucer, John Urry, Timothy Thomas, 1721
