His commentary on Aratus shows that he had expounded, and given a geometrical demonstration of, the methods necessary to find out the right and oblique ascensions of the points of the ecliptic and of the stars, the east point and the culminating point of the ecliptic, and the angle of the east, which is now called the nonagesimal degree. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.] Reference
If we place the standard of gravity in latitude 45° of the nonagesimal division, we shall have y '= G. (1 — .00275 cos2a — .0000000957/0. From Wordnik.com. [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society] Reference
Aim.), true latitude, North, - true distance from nonagesimal, (East), equatorial horizontal parallax, horizontal parallax, reduced, (320 to 319) parallax in longitude, apparent distance from nonagesimal, (East), parallax in latitude, -- apparent latitude, North, augmented semidiameter, arising from apparent altitude, inflexion of light semidiameter, corrected. From Wordnik.com. [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society] Reference
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