Miscellanea Curiosa, Vol. 1: Containing a collection of some of the principal phaenomena in nature, accounted for by the greatest philosophers of this age
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Miscellanea Curiosa, Vol. 1: Containing a collection of some of the principal phaenomena in nature, accounted for by the greatest philosophers of this age
Natural history; Science -- Early works to 1800; Voyages and travels -- Early works to 1800
The Relation between these two Figures being well understood, it will
follow from what precedes, That, _the sum of the _Sines_ of the Meridian
Altitudes of the Sun in the two Tropicks, (and the like for any two
opposite Parallels) being multiplied by the _Sine_ of the semidiurnal
Arch, will give an _Area_ Analogous to the Curve Surface RIMSQDP; and
thereto adding in Summer, or substracting in Winter, the Product of the
length of the semidiurnal Arch, (taken according to _Van Ceulen_'s
Numbers) into the difference of the above-said _Sines_ of the Meridian
Altitude: The sum in one case, and difference in another, shall be as
the Aggregate of all the _Sines_ of the Sun's Altitude, during his
appearance above the Horizon; and consequently of all his Heat and
Action on the Plain of the Horizon in the proposed Day_. And this may
also be extended to the parts of the same Day; for if the aforesaid Sum
of the _Sines_ of the Meridian Altitudes, be multiplied by half the Sum
of the _Sines_ of the Sun's Horary distance from Noon, when the Times
are before and after Noon; or by half their difference, when both are on
the same side of the Meridian; and thereto in Summer, or therefrom in
Winter, be added or substracted the Product of half the Arch answerable
to the proposed interval of Time, into the difference of the _Sines_ of
Meridian Altitudes, the Sum in one case and Difference in the other,
shall be proportional to all the Action of the Sun during that space of
time.
I fore-see it will be Objected, that I take the _Radius_ of my Circle on
which I erect my Perpendiculars always the same, whereas the Parallels
of Declination are unequal; but to this I answer, That our said Circular
Bases ought not to be Analogous to the Parallels, but to the Times of
Revolution, which are equal in all of them.
It may perhaps be useful to give an Example of the Computation of this
Rule, which may seem difficult to some. Let the Solstitical Heat in
♋ and ♑ be required at _London_, _Lat._ 51° 32'.
380-2'8 _Co-Lat._
23 -30 _Decl. ⨀_
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61 -58 _Sinus_ = ,882674
14 -58 _Sinus_ = ,258257
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_Summa_ 1,140931
_Diff._ ,624417
_Diff. Ascen._ 3300-1'1.
_Arch. Semid. æstiv._ 123-11.
_Ar. Sem. hyb. 56-49. S._ ,638923
_Arch. æstiv. mensura_ 2,149955
_Arc. hyb. mensura_ ,991683
Then 1,140931 in ,836923, + 624417 in 2,149955 = 2,29734.
And 1,140931 in 836929 - ,624417 in ,991638 = 33895.
So that 2,29734 will be as the Tropical Summers Day Heat, and 0,33895 as
the Action of the Sun in the Day of the Winter Solstice.
After this manner I computed the following Table for every tenth Degree
of Latitude, to the Æquinoctial and Tropical Sun, by which an Estimate
may be made of the intermediate Degrees.
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