 | Elijah Parish - Geography - 1810 - 410 pages
...globular figure of the earth has been ascertained by its being sailed round by several navigators. The axis of the earth is an imaginary line, passing...revolves in 24 hours. The northern extremity of this axis is called the north pole ; the southern extremity, the south pole. The meridian is a great circle,... | |
 | John Bigland, Jedidiah Morse - Geography - 1812 - 470 pages
...not to produce any perceptible error in geographical calculations. Axis and poles of the earth.~\ — The axis of the earth is an imaginary line passing through its centre, on which it performs its diurnal rotation. The extremities of this line are two ideal points Called... | |
 | Edward Bruce (bookseller.) - 1821 - 418 pages
...especially when the country is not very extensive, the difference from the true figure is very small. 3. The axis of the earth is an imaginary line passing through its centre, round which it turns from west to east, once in 24 hours. This is represented on the globes by the... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - Natural history - 1821 - 448 pages
...branches : the latter, the fourth branch of the subject. F 2 SECTION II. ASTRONOMICAL GEOGRAPHY. 72. THE axis of the earth is an imaginary line passing through its centre, upon which it is supposed to turn, and about which all the heavenly bodies appear to have a diurnal... | |
 | Joseph Emerson Worcester - Atlases - 1822 - 354 pages
...the heavens, having the fixed stars drawn upon it in their natural situation. The aa-is of a globe is an imaginary line passing through its centre from north to south, around which it revolves. The poles are the extremities of the axis terminated by the surface of the... | |
 | James M'Intire - Globes - 1823 - 232 pages
...suppose himself placed in the centre of this globe, and viewing the stars in the concave surface. 3. The Axis of the Earth is an imaginary line passing through its centre, on which it revolves; and is represented by the wire that passes through the centre of the artificial... | |
 | Jacob Abbot Cummings - Cartography - 1825 - 216 pages
...into which these stars are arranged. Each globe consists of several parts. The axis of the globe, or earth, is an imaginary line, passing through its centre from north to south, around which it performs its diurnal or daily revolution in 24 hours from west to east, which causes... | |
 | James Charlton - Geography - 1829 - 250 pages
...representation of the earth, with its several divisions qf land and water. j ........ i'i.! jlu ,| ,| ;. 29. The Axis of the earth is an imaginary line passing through its centre, round which it turns from west to east in twenty-four hours. . .•( ,-.- j Day and night are occasioned... | |
 | G. Rubie - Astronomy - 1830 - 204 pages
...numbered from the Equator towards each Pole, and the other side, from the Poles towards the Equator. The Axis of the Earth, is an imaginary line passing through its centre, on which it is supposed to turn, and is represented by the perpendicular line passing through the centre... | |
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The AXIS of the earth is an imaginary line passing through its centre from north to south. The... 
