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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ing the earth's surface, and determining the position of places, astronomers have supposed to be drawn round both the Celestial and Terrestrial Spheres. In this figure, which represents on a plane surface one-half of the terrestrial sphere, C D is the one-half of the equator, which, as we mentioned before, is a circle supposed to be drawn round the middle of the earth, or at an equal distance from each pole. As the plane of the equator passes through the centre of the earth, it divides it mto two equal parts, and is, consequently, A Creat Circle. The half of the globe above or north of the equator is called the Northern HemiSphere, and the half below or south of the equator is called the Southern Hemisphere. The word hemisphere means Aalfol a sphere or globe. A and B are the Poles of the earth, or its extreme northern and southern points; and the lines or circles drawn from A to B are Meridians. The circles which are drawn parallel to the equator are called Parallels. And in the northern hemisphere, I K a If you stand opposite to a globe, and at some distance from it, the half of the equator, as in the diagram, will appear to you to be a straight line, and not a semurircle. The half of a meridian presents a similar appearance when you stand opposite to it, as A B In the diagram. represents the tropic of Cancer, and E F, the Arctic circle; and in the southern hemisphere, L M is the tropic of Capricorn, and G H, the Antarctic circle. L K represents th, ? one half of the ecliptic, but it refers to the heavens. See page 26, and note at bottom. [Young persons may be led by familiar illustrations, such as the following, to form clear and correct ideas of Latitude and LongiTude. Put a pin up to the head in any part of an orange, which is equidistant from the top and bot..


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217838559
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 144
  • Spine Width: 8 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217838553
  • Publisher Date: 11 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 268 gr


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