An Angular Tour of the World: The Curiosities of Latitude and Longitude (Classic Reprint)

A~ ANGU LAn TOUH OF THE VORLD; OR, The Curiosities of Latitude and LongItude LA'.r(,l'VD~ ............• , ..•. , •.... BREADTH. LOSGt'l"'l;DE ...................... LF.NGTH. THBRB is no latitude at the equator and no longitude at London (or Greenwich), these being the initial or starting-points front which latitude and longitude are tneasured. "Ve n1ay define the position of any place on the earth very accurately by giving its latitude and longiturle. "'rhe' City Hall~ New York, for instance, is 40° 42' 44" north latitude and 740 0' 24" west longitude. Yale College, New Haven, is 41° 18' 28" north latitude and 72.°, 55' 45" west longitude. The State House, Boston, is 42° 21' 28" north latitude and 7 1° 3' 50" west longitude., The A uditorillln, Chicago, is 41° 53' north latitude anrl 870 37' west longitude.

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STATENORMALSCHOO~; llQS ~~CEu~S, call; CONTENTS; PAG*,; Accurate Clocks r'" •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 4=) Altitude , • ", ,-, ,#~ ••• , 't 't •• · ,, ••• , 25; A ogle of Night Shadow 2S; Angular Distances 41; A11gular Tour of the Vorld 1(); Antipodal :f:eridian • , • " '41 •••••••••• __ ••• , , ••••• 20-56; -ntipodes 1, I 'I •• * •• , 20; Apparent Suu Time : or G4; Apparition l~; Astra 0 om i cal Geogra ph y , 3-; A Vonderful Clock _ 4-; Axis of Rotation , , • , •• , , " •• ~ , 14; Relts (Zolle) , • , • ,, l·~; Beginoing of a Day , 51; Celestial Pole , :1G; Center of Gravity - 34; Changes·in Appearance of the Hea,~ens •• H" ••• " •• H'"' •••• 3'7; Circumnavigating the Globe 60; Climate •• ,, , •••••••••• 2!!; Clocks Jgree ~1; Clocks Differ , , • , • ,, ~l; Clock-The Earth '" 4~· 4,1; C~Latitude , ••••• , ~r,; Co-Incident Pllenomena 1 :J~; Com pensation Balance , ", !ll); Concentric Zone Boundaries 14; COXTRXTS; Concrele Teachillg • • 3; Cone of Rotation 43; Date Jine • • 53; Da'n aud T",;l1ght _ :,6; Day '" 42; Declination 25; Direction of Rotation and Revolutio