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Which is the Horary Angle, or the time the Sun wants of being on the Meridian—or it is 32m 24s past 9 o'clock in the morning, for anwer. And note! the bet tables for thee and the Lunar Obervations, are the Requiite tables; yet, if they are not at hand, any tables of artificial Sines, Tangent, and Secants will do to olve this lat Problem; but to illutrate this Problem till more, and render it perfect in its ue, both to eamen, and others who have no Quadrant, I will hew how to take an Altitude by the Planisphere to the nearet minute, by which the Horary Angle, or time from noon, will come out correct to a econd, as thus: on the director is a line called Perpendicular, divided into four equal parts—and a imilar line of equal parts, up to ten, on the Hour Circle of ix, Wetward; hang the plummet on the center, and let the hair hang over the 12, at night, and then the line of ix is an Horizon; put a fine pin in the 2, 3, or 4, of the perpendicular lines, and bring this Scale to the Meridian, South, and form a right Angle with the line of ix, and ee what diviion the hadow of the