The English globe being a stabil and immobil one, performing what the ordinary globes do, and much more / invented and described by the Right Honorable, the Earl of Castlemaine ; and now publish't by Joseph Moxon ...

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Title: The English globe being a stabil and immobil one, performing what the ordinary globes do, and much more / invented and described by the Right Honorable, the Earl of Castlemaine ; and now publish't by Joseph Moxon ...
Author: Castlemaine, Roger Palmer, Earl of, 1634-1705.
Publication: London :: Printed for Joseph Moxon ...,; 1679.
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Subject terms: Astronomy -- Early works to 1800.; Globes -- Early works to 1800.
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OPERATION XIV. To find the length of the Day and Night.

DOuble the hour of the Sun's Setting, (which on the 10. of April happens, as we said, about 7 at night) and the Product (to wit near 14 hours) will be the length of the Day; or double (5) the hour of his Rising, and the Product (10 hours) gives the length of the Night. Nay, if you do but consider how the Parallel of the Day is cut by the Horizon, you have the whole business represented to the life at one view, even as it hap∣pens in the very Heavens themselves; for that part of the said Parallel above the Horizon, being devided to your hand by the Hour-circles, into almost 14 hours, shews the Days length, and consequently that part under the Horizon (shewing a little more than 10 hours,) gives the length of the Night.