Problem VII. To find the time of the Suns rising and setting with the Length of the day and Night.
First find the Ascensional difference, as hath been shewed in the fifth Problem; which, when the Sun is in the Northern
The English academy, or, A brief introduction to the seven liberal arts grammar, arithmetick, geometrie, musick, astronomie, rhetorick & logic : to which is added the necessary arts and mysteries of navigation, dyaling, surveying, mensuration, gauging & fortification, practically laid down in all their material points and particulars, highly approved to be known by the ingenious, and as such are desirous to profit, or render themselves accomplished : chiefly intended for the instruction of young scholars, who are acquainted with no other than their native language, but may also be very useful to other persons that have made some progress in the studies of the said arts / by John Newton.
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- The English academy, or, A brief introduction to the seven liberal arts grammar, arithmetick, geometrie, musick, astronomie, rhetorick & logic : to which is added the necessary arts and mysteries of navigation, dyaling, surveying, mensuration, gauging & fortification, practically laid down in all their material points and particulars, highly approved to be known by the ingenious, and as such are desirous to profit, or render themselves accomplished : chiefly intended for the instruction of young scholars, who are acquainted with no other than their native language, but may also be very useful to other persons that have made some progress in the studies of the said arts / by John Newton.
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- Newton, John, 1622-1678.
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- 1693.
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"The English academy, or, A brief introduction to the seven liberal arts grammar, arithmetick, geometrie, musick, astronomie, rhetorick & logic : to which is added the necessary arts and mysteries of navigation, dyaling, surveying, mensuration, gauging & fortification, practically laid down in all their material points and particulars, highly approved to be known by the ingenious, and as such are desirous to profit, or render themselves accomplished : chiefly intended for the instruction of young scholars, who are acquainted with no other than their native language, but may also be very useful to other persons that have made some progress in the studies of the said arts / by John Newton." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A52260.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 19, 2024.
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signs, is to be added to the Semi-diurnal Arch of the Right sphere, which is 90, but is to be subtracted from the same, if he be in the southern signs, and the sum or difference will be the semi-diurnal Arch, which doub∣led, is the day Arch, whose Complement to 24, is the night Arch, which Bisected, is the time of the suns rising.