 | Charles Leadbetter - 1742 - 530 pàgines
...fouthern Conftellation of thirteen Stars. Colures, are two great Circles \yhich ¡nterfeâ one another at right Angles in the Poles of the World, and divide the Zodiack into four equal Parts, and denote the four Seafpns of the Year ; that paffing through Cancer... | |
 | George Adams - 1766 - 306 pàgines
...folftitial points (marked & and vs) of cancer and Capricorn, are called the folftitial colures. 129. Thefe colures cut each other at right angles in the...equator, ecliptic, and zodiac into four equal parts. 130. The equinoctial colure only pafles through the poles of the world at N and S. But, 131. The folftitial... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 434 pàgines
...theobroma, urena, waltharia. COLURES, in aftronomyand geography, two great circles fuppofed to interfeft each other at right angles in the poles of the world, and to pafs through the folftitial and equinoftial points of the ecliptic. See GEOGRACHY. COLURI, a little... | |
 | John Milton, Henry John Todd - 1809 - 414 pàgines
...earth from eaft to wef^ and from weft to eaft again : fo the colures are two great circles, interfering each other at right angles in the poles of the world, and encompaffing the earth from north to fouth, and from fouth to north again : and therefore, as Satan... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 824 pàgines
...Linnseus. See BOTANY Index. COLURES, in Aßronomy and Geography, two great circles luppofed to interfeft each other at right angles in the poles of the world, and to pafs through the foliiitial and equinoftial points of the ecliptic. Se« GEOCKAPHY. COLURI, a little... | |
 | Edward Augustus Kendall - 1811 - 474 pàgines
...7 and 8. COLUMN. See ARCHITECTURE. COLURES, in astronomy, two great circles sup. posed to intersect each other at right angles in the poles of the world, and to pass through the solstitial and equinoctial points of the ecliptic. They are hence called the solstitial... | |
 | Edward Augustus Kendall - 1811 - 482 pàgines
...7 and 8. GOLUMS. See ARCHITECTURE. COLBRES, in astronomy, two great .circles supposed to intersect each other at right angles in the poles of the world, and to pass through the solstitial and equinoctial points of the ecliptic. They are hence called the solstitial... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1819 - 414 pàgines
...genus BfxA, which see. COLURES, in astronomy and geography, two great circles, supposed to intersect each other at right angles in the poles of the world, and to pass through the solstitial and equinoctial points ofthe ecliptic. That which passes through the... | |
 | 1823 - 878 pàgines
...Linnaeus. See BOTANY Index. COLURES, in Astronomy and Geography, two great circles supposed to intersect each other at right angles in the poles of the world, and to pass through the solstitial and equinoctial points of the ecliptic. See GEOGRAPHY. COLURI, a little... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 572 pàgines
...from east to west and from west to east again ; so the colures are two great circles, intersecting each other at right angles in the poles of the world, and encompassing the earth from north to south, and from south to north again : and tht-refore as Satan... | |
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... the colures are two great circles, intersecting each other at right angles in the poles of the world, and encompassing the earth from north to south, and from south to north again... 
