Notes shewing how to get the angle of parallax of a comet or other phænomenon at two observations to be taken in any one station or place of the earth and thereby the distance from the earth / by R. Holland.

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Title: Notes shewing how to get the angle of parallax of a comet or other phænomenon at two observations to be taken in any one station or place of the earth and thereby the distance from the earth / by R. Holland.
Author: Holland, R. (Richard), 1596-1677.
Publication: Oxford :: Printed by L. Lichfield for Richard Davis,; 1668.
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Subject terms: Parallax.; Astronomy -- Early works to 1800.
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Azimuth.

II. I need not here define the A∣zimuth to any, who knoweth the use of the Globe, yet I will Note how it is accounted in this case. Azimuth is an Arch of the Horizon contained be∣tween the North or South points of the Horizon, where the Meridian cutteth it, and a Vertical Circle, which falleth on the Horizon from the Zenith through the Center of any Starr.