Re: Brief explanation/derivation for Horizontal-Dial's declination-lines?

2019-11-18 Thread Michael Ossipoff
In the date at the bottom of my post, I mistakenly said "48 M, November 18th", but the correct Greenwich date of course was and is: 48 Tu November 19th Michael Ossipoff On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 7:42 PM Michael Ossipoff wrote: > First, an omission in my post about the trig-at-the-dial derivation

Re: Brief explanation/derivation for Horizontal-Dial's declination-lines?

2019-11-18 Thread Michael Ossipoff
First, an omission in my post about the trig-at-the-dial derivation: . I should have said that, by the definition of the cosine: . NE = NP/cos h. . -- . Yes, the thing is that all of the declination-line calculations and explanations that we've discussed here require telling the per