altitude and azimuth
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These two co-ordinates, the altitude and azimuth, will determine the position of any object with reference to the observer's place.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882 by Various
Quadrant in Uraniburg; or altitude and azimuth instrument.
From Pioneers of Science by Lodge, Oliver, Sir
In the anaphoric clock a disc engraved with the stars is rotated automatically behind a fixed grille of wires marking lines of altitude and azimuth.
From On the Origin of Clockwork, Perpetual Motion Devices, and the Compass by Price, Derek J. de Solla (Derek John de Solla)
In the astrolabe, an openwork metal rete containing markings for the stars, etc., may be rotated by hand over a disc on which the lines of altitude and azimuth are inscribed.
From On the Origin of Clockwork, Perpetual Motion Devices, and the Compass by Price, Derek J. de Solla (Derek John de Solla)
After their removal to the bank building there were added to these an "altitude and azimuth circle," loaned to Mr. Mitchell by West Point Academy, and two transit instruments.
From Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals by Mitchell, Maria
