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LONGISSIMUS DORSI

Volume 6 · 63 words · 1778 Edition

See ANATOMY, Table of the Muscles.

LONGITUDE OF A STAR, in astronomy, an arch of the ecliptic, intercepted between the beginning of Aries and the point of the ecliptic cut by the star's circle of longitude.

Longitude of any place on the surface of the earth. See GEOGRAPHY, ASTRONOMY, and NAVIGATION. See also HARRISON.

Method of finding the Longitude at Sea. See NAVIGATION.