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Definition of Longitudes
1. longitude [n] - See also: longitude
Lexicographical Neighbors of Longitudes
Literary usage of Longitudes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society by Royal Astronomical Society (1895)
"Comparison of the Sun's Longitudes for 1900 computed from Newcomb's Tables of
the Sun ... It exhibits the corrections to apparent longitudes of the Sun, ..."
2. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1853)
"ON THE Longitudes OF KEV WEST, CEDAR KEYS, AAD ST. MARK'S, FLORIDA. ... and April
last, for the determination of the longitudes of Key West, Cedar Keys, ..."
3. Astronomical Papyri from Oxyrhynchus by Alexander Jones (1999)
"I. Conversion of Longitudes. Computed longitudes in modern astronomical tables such
... Ptolemy's tables were also intended to generate tropical longitudes, ..."
4. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1893)
"THE DETERMINATION OF GEOGRAPHICAL Longitudes BY PHOTOGRAPHY. ... values of the
different astronomical methods for the determination of longitudes. ..."
5. Plane and Spherical Trigonometry by George Albert Wentworth (1891)
"Given the latitudes and longitudes of three place» on the earth's surface ...
In this case we have the latitudes given, and also the longitudes ; so that we ..."
6. Universal Geography: Or a Description of All Parts of the World, on a New by Conrad Malte-Brun (1824)
"... and the calculation giving for Paris, 4 hours 36' 38", the difference, which
is 3 hours 8' 52", is equal to the difference of the longitudes of Paris ..."
7. Notes of a Military Reconnoissance from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri to San by William Hemsley Emory (1848)
"The travelling rates of chronometer 783 were, as the observations will show, very
uniform, and longitudes deduced from it, compared with direct measurements ..."
8. An Introduction to Practical Astronomy: With a Collection of Astronomical Tables by Elias Loomis (1865)
"LATITUDES AND Longitudes OF PLACES IN THE UNITED STATES. West Longitudes are
considered as positive, East Longitudes as negative. ..."
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