A QUERY.
To fie: Editor. Sir, —In your astronomical notes the word meridian is frequently used, and it puzzles me rather, because it is sometimes referred to as being in the north, and sometimes as being in the south. Would you kindly help me over the difficulty? Of coarse I know what a terrestrial meridian is j it is the celestial business that 1 don’t see through : that’s what’s the matter with me.—l am, &c. f Argo Navis. Dunedin, December 31. {Practically, the celestial meridian may he thus conceived : It is an imaginary arch of no measurable breadth, passing from the north point of the horizon through the zenith (or point exactly overhead) to the south point of the horizon.— T d. *E. S’]
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Evening Star, Issue 3700, 31 December 1874, Page 3
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124A QUERY. Evening Star, Issue 3700, 31 December 1874, Page 3
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