Note 3 — SECTION VI.
Reading edition
Sir John Herschel remarks that there are just as many thousands of feet in a degree of the meridian in our latitude as there are days in the year, viz. 365,000.
The Greenwich Observatory is in N. lat. 51° 28ʹ40ʺ.
Reading edition
Sir John Herschel remarks that there are just as many thousands of feet in a degree of the meridian in our latitude as there are days in the year, viz. 365,000.
The Greenwich Observatory is in N. lat. 51° 28ʹ40ʺ.