 | Charles William Hackley - Trigonometry - 1851 - 524 pages
...first meridian, which has also been adopted in this country. r 4. The longitude of any place is the arc of the equator, intercepted between the meridian of that place and the first meridian ; the longitude> therefore, is the measure of the angle between the planes of the two... | |
 | Charles Davies - Navigation - 1854 - 446 pages
...meridian of the Greenwich Observatory, for the first meridian. 6. The longitude of any place is the arc of the equator, intercepted between the meridian of that place and the first meridian, and is east or west, according as the place lies east or west of the first meridian.... | |
 | Elias Loomis - Trigonometry - 1855 - 192 pages
...earth. Every place on the earth's surface has its own meridian. (190.) The longitude of any place is the arc of the equator intercepted between the meridian of that place and some assumed meridian to which all others are referred. In most countries of Europe, that has been... | |
 | Elias Loomis - Logarithms - 1859 - 372 pages
...earth. Every place on the earth's surface has its own meridian. (190.) The longitude of any place is the arc of the equator intercepted between the meridian of that place and some assumed meridian to which all others are referred. In most countries of Europe, that has been... | |
 | Elias Loomis - Astronomy - 1866 - 384 pages
...distance from the nearest pole, and is the complement of the latitude. The longitude of a place is the arc of the equator intercepted between the meridian of that place and some assumed meridian to which all others are referred. The English reckon longitude " from the observatory... | |
 | Elias Loomis - Astronomy - 1893 - 374 pages
...distance .from the nearest pole, and is the complement of the latitude. The longitude of a place is the arc of the equator intercepted between the meridian of that place and some assumed meridian to which all others are referred. The English reckon longitude from the observatory... | |
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The longitude of any place is the arc of the equator, intercepted between the meridian of that place and the first meridian; the longitude, therefore, is the measure of the angle between the two meridians. 
