On this occasion the spot appeared in a higher latitude from the planet's equator than did Professor Hall's.
The latter condition clearly necessitates parallel meridians, and the former a continuous increase of scale as the equator is departed from, i.
If the two places are upon the same meridian or upon the equator the exact distance separating them is to be found by reference to a table giving the lengths of arcs of a meridian and of the equator.
Following Hipparchus he divided the equatorinto 360 deg.
The meridians divide the equator into equal parts and are arcs of circles passing through points so determined and the poles.
The equator is a straight line at right angles to the central meridian which is also a straight line.
The points in which the meridians meet this elliptic equator are determined by lines drawn parallel to aob through the points of equal subdivision cdefgh.
But suppose that the earth is to the North of the magnetic equator of the field, what happens then?
In Bessel's method, which we shall first describe, the intersection of the plane of the earth's equator with the fundamental plane is taken as the axis of X.
The Coca rises on the eastern slopes of the Andes near Cayambe and the Guamani range, and flows eastward near the equator to San Rafael (about 76 deg.
Although the equatorcrosses the northern part of the republic, only 15 m.
The metric system is based on the meter, which is one-ten millionth of the distance from the Earth’s equator to the North Pole.
The strange and almost savage ceremonies used at sea on crossing the equator have been so often described that a voyager, at this time of day, may be well excused for omitting any minute account of such wild proceedings.
This westerly wind is evidently produced by the air drawn actually from the equator towards the slower moving latitudes of the earth, by the rarefaction of the air to the southward when the sun is near the tropic of Capricorn.
That would have been like letting the sun of the Equator shine on the Polar seas.
What suffices at the equatorwould be but a morsel at the pole.
Vegetable substances alone will not sustain life for a great length of time in every climate, but there is a vast difference between the wants of man at the equator and his necessities at the pole.
On the west of the rift-valley the wall of cliffs is best marked between the equator and 1° S.
The line chosen roughly coincides with that of the road, until the equator is reached, after which it strikes by a more direct route across the Mau plateau to the lake, which it reaches at Port Florence on Kavirondo Gulf.
Libreville is a very pretty town, but when it was laid out the surveyors just missed placing the Equator in its main street.
Parallel to the equator and extending between 2° and 3° on each side is a broad belt, where the north and south trades neutralize each other, producing what is called the “Region or Belt of Calms.
North of the equator summer is popularly taken to include the months of June, July, and August.
A constellation on the equator south of Leo; the Sextant.
It is only at the equatoritself that a degree of longitude represents 1/360 of the earth's circumference.
To make amends for this distortion, the parallels of latitude are not drawn equidistant, as in reality they practically are on the globe, but are spaced farther and farther apart, as we advance from the equator toward either pole.
Along an irregular line encircling the earth in the neighbourhood of the geographical equator the needle takes up a horizontal position, and the dip is zero.
South of the magnetic equator the south end of the needle is always inclined downwards, and there is a spot within the Antarctic Circle (148 deg.
Near the magnetic equator the vertical force has the greater influence.
Though the saltness of the sea does not vary very greatly, it yet, is augmented or diminished somewhat, according to locality, currents and proximity to the equator or to the poles.
Great importance has been attached to this variation in the inclination of the equator to the orbit by Dr.
As most people know, the change in the seasons is due to the fact that the equator of the earth is inclined at an angle to the plane of its orbit.
Here are three wavering systems of change all going on independently of each other; the precession of the equinoxes, the change in the obliquity of the equator to the orbit, and the changes in the eccentricity of the orbit.
If the earth stood up straight in its orbit, so that its equator was in the plane of its orbit, there would be no change in the seasons at all.
Mr. Hardy, with a vain attempt to catch Jack Nugent's eye, resigned himself to his fate, and with his fair burden on his arm walked with painful slowness towards Equator Lodge.
The sun itself passed the equator the same day; so, after having left Australia at the end of autumn, I suddenly found myself in Asia in the early spring.
From every point of the plane of the equator force proceeds to the pole E, but the point F has its powers only from GH, and N from OH; but the pole E is strengthened from the whole plane HQ.
In other latitudes, the ascension of every degree of the zodiac could be easily tabulated by observing what degree of the equator came to the meridian with the said degree of the zodiac; see l.
Hence theequator is here called the 'girdle of the first moving.
The error of Chaucer's method is that it identifies the motion of the equator with that of the ecliptic.
This ninth sphere had for its poles the north and south poles of the heavens, and its 'girdle' (or great circle equidistant from the poles) was the equator itself.
Thus the latitude of the fourth climate might mean, either the breadth of that belt itself, or the whole breadth from the equator to the Northern limit of that climate.
Here the equator of Browning's genius may be drawn.
Yes; the summer north of the equator is about seven and a half days longer.
I was told by a teacher that the summers are longer north of the equator than south of it; is that true?
It is interesting to note that most developing countries are located near the equator where the sun is nearly directly overhead all the time.
A reflective wall is most important in locations farther from the equator and in winter.
Flamingoes are not migratory in an ordinary sense--birds born on the equator seldom are.
The success of such enterprise in New Zealand and South Africa (it is even promising to succeed under the Equator in B.
