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A treatise describing the construction, and explaining the use of new celestial and terrestrial globes : designed to illustrate in the most easy and natural manner, the phaenomena of the earth and heavens, ant to shew the correspondence of the two spheres : with great variety of astronomical and geographical problems / by George Adams, mathematical instrument-maker ...
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xviii The CONTENTS.

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The several circles described on each globe 62

The equator 63

Prob. II. To find the latitude of a place 65

III. To find all those places which have

the fame latitude with any givenplace 65

IV. To find the difference of latitude be-tween any two places 66

V. To find the declination of the fun

or any star 66

VI. To find what stars pass over or nearly

over the zenith of any place 68

Celestial and terrestrial meridians, what 69

VII. To find the longitude of a place 71

VIII. To find what places have mid-day,or the fun upon their meridian, atany given hour of the day, in anyplace proposed 74

IX. To find what hour it is at any placeproposed, when it is noon at anygiven place 77

X. At any given time of the day at theplace where you are to find the hourat any other place proposed 78

XI. The latitude and longitude of anyplace being known, to find thatplace upon the globe; or if it benot inserted, to find its place, andfix the artificial horizon thereto 79

The ecliptic described 80

The celestial signs and constellations 83

General phœnomena arising from the earthsdiurnal motion 86

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