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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 Excerpt: ...westward 150. If, then, we know that Greenwich time is three hours later than our time, we know that we are 450 west from Greenwich; and if Greenwich time is two hours earlier than our time, we know that we are 300 east of that place, or that we are in longitude 300 east. Not only is the time at which the occultation of the star would occur to an observer at the centre of the earth computed in Greenwich time and published in the Nautical Almanac, but also the time when the moon passes all the principal stars near her path is computed and published in the same manner, as well as the distance of the moon from these principal stars for every day during the year. Thus the heavens become a universal dial over which the moon sweeps as a minute-hand, marking, as she passes the fixed stars, Greenwich time to every part of the earth. But this hand moves with considerable unsteadiness, now faster and now slower, according as the moon is at perigee or apogee, and subject to various other fluctuations; while by reason of parallax and refraction her real position in front of the dial is seldom what it appears to be, so that it has required the patient observation and study of years to learn to read this time aright. The learning to read time accurately by this clock of nature has been one of the greatest triumphs of astronomy, and is a good illustration of the practical bearing of such scientific studies. SUMMARY OF THE MOON AND ECLIPSES. The mean distance of the moon is about thirty diameters of the earth; her mean angular diameter about 31'; the inclination of her orbit to the ecliptic about 50; her sidereal period about 27 days; and her synodical period about 29J days. (114-) The phases of the moon depend upon the position of her visible with reference to her enlight...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781130053326
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 80
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1130053326
  • Publisher Date: 01 Mar 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 159 gr


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