The greatest distance of the moon from the ecliptic is about one and a half degrees.
Of the four planets which are the ones we ordinarily see, Mars and Jupiter are never as much as two degrees from the ecliptic, Saturn never more than two and a half degrees, and Venus never more than about three degrees.
North of the island of Sebu lies the island of Negros, which extends between nine and ten and one-half degrees, and has some hundred leguas of circumference.
That island is about two hundred leguas or so long and runs from the east to the north, from about thirteen and one-half degrees [of latitude] to about nineteen or a trifle less.
In its largest part that island extends from five and one-half degrees northeastward to nine degrees--a distance of some seventy leguas.
It lies between thirteen and one-half degrees and eleven degrees south latitude, in which latitude it extends for the space of two and one-half degrees.
The attraction of crystallization begins, doubtless, to throw the atoms into their new and crystalline arrangement at the temperature of thirty-nine and a half degrees.
Our lakes are cooled even in winter only to thirty-nine and a half degrees; below this temperature the colder water is lighter and remains upon the surface; ice floats upon the surface.
The difference of temperature due to the moon's influence Mr. Harrison believed to be two and a half degrees.
On the northwest and open side are two islets which lie in 8 and one-half degrees.
The last-named island lies in 9 and one-half degrees.
Poluan] to its southwest headland, we discovered an island with a shoal on its eastern side, and which lies in 7 and one-half degrees, so that we had to deviate to the west for about fifteen leguas.
The equator, therefore, must be turned the same distance out of a coincidence with the ecliptic, the two circles making an angle with each other of twenty-three and a half degrees.
Following the above-mentioned course he sailed to the altitude of nine and one-half degrees, whence he sailed southwest by west to fourteen degrees, where he changed his course to northwest by west.
This port lies in an altitude of nine and one-half degrees.
And the course is north, sixty-five and one-half degrees east.
But the magnetic variation in this place is thirty-three and one-half degrees.
As there are only ninety degrees in a quadrant this sixty-seven degrees north of east changes to seventy-nine and one-half degrees south of east.
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