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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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noon when in either of thesepoints 316

LXXXI. Given, the hour from noon,and the funs distance fromthe pole ; to find his distancefrom the vertex 318

LXXXII. Given, the funs distance fromthe pole, the latitude and funsdistance from the vertex byobservation : to find the timeof the day, and the azimuthupon which the sun was atthat time 319

LXXXIII. Given, the latitude, funsplace, and right ascension : tofind what point of the eclipticculminates, its highest point,

&c. The distance of the nona-gesimal from the vertex, andthe angle made by the verticalcircle passing through the funat that time with the ecliptic 322LXXXIV. Given, the latitude, right as-cension and declination of anypoint of the ecliptic, or of afixed star : to find its risingor setting amplitude, its ascen-sional difference, and thenceits oblique ascension 327

LXXXV. Given, the latitude, the pointsof the ecliptic with which astar rises or sets, and the alti-tude of the nonagesimal whenthose points are upon the ho-rizon :