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The description and use of the globes and the orrery: To which is prefix'd, by way of introduction, a brief account of the solar system — John Shaqi

The description and use of the globes and the orrery: To which is prefix'd, by way of introduction, a brief account of the solar systemHarris, Joseph

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The description and use of the globes and the orrery: To which is prefix'd, by way of introduction, a brief account of the solar system

Name: The description and use of the globes and the orrery: To which is prefix'd, by way of introduction, a brief account of the solar system
Author: Harris, Joseph

Harris, Joseph

Astronomical models; Globes

SECT. III. _The Use of the Globes_                           104
    PROBLEM I. _To find the Latitude and Longitude of any given
        place upon the Globe; and on the contrary, the
        Latitude and Longitude being given to find the Place_   ibid.
    PROB. II. _To find the Difference of Latitude
        betwixt any two given places_                            106
    PROB. III. _To find the Difference of Longitude
        betwixt any two given places_                           ibid.
    PROB. IV. _Any Place being given; to find all those places
        that are in the same Latitude with the said place_       107
    PROB. V. _The Day of the Month being given; to find
        the Sun’s place in the Ecliptic, and his Declination_    108
    PROB. VI. _To rectify the Globe for the Latitude,
        Zenith, and Sun’s place_                                 109
    PROB. VII. _To find the Distance between any two
        given Places upon the Globe, and to find all those
        places upon the Globe that are at the same Distance
        from a given place_                                      110
    PROB. VIII. _To find the Angle of a Position of Places;
        or the angle formed by the Meridian of one place,
        and a great circle passing through both the places_      111
    PROB. IX. _To find the_ Antœci, Periœci, _and_
        Antipodes, _to any given place_                          113
    PROB. X. _The Hour of the Day at one Place being given;
        to find the correspondent Hour (or what o’Clock it
        is at that time) at any other place_                     114
    PROB. XI. _The Day of the Month being given; to
        find those places on the Globe where the Sun will be
        Vertical, or in the Zenith, that Day_                    115
    PROB. XII. _A place being given in the_ Torrid
        Zone; _to find those two Days in which the Sun will
        be Vertical to the same_                                 116
    PROB. XIII. _To find where the Sun is Vertical at
        any given time assigned; or, the Day of the Month and
        the Hour at any place_ (_suppose_ London) _being
        given, to find in what place the Sun is Vertical at
        that very time_                                         ibid.
    PROB. XIV. _The Day, and the Hour of the Day at one
        place, being given; to find all those places upon the
        Earth where the Sun is then Rising, Setting, Culminating
       (or on the Meridian); also where it is Day-light, Twilight,
        Dark Night, Midnight; where the Twilight then begins, and
        where it ends; the Height of the Sun in any part of the
        illuminated Hemisphere; also his Depression in the
        obscure Hemisphere_                                      117
    PROB. XV. _The Day of the Month being given, to show,
        at one View, the Length of Days and Nights in all Places
        upon the Earth, at that time; and to explain how the

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