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Encyclopedia Britannica



HOUR ANGLE

This article appears in Volume V13, Page 809 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: HOR-I25
HOUR ANGLE ,' the angu:ar distance of a heavenly
body
  from the meridian, as measured around the
celestial
 
pole
 . It is equal to the
angle
  at the
pole
  between the hour circle through the
body
  and the meridian, but is usually expressed in time.
HOUR-GLASS, a device for measuring intervals of time, also known as sand-glass, and as log-glass when used in conjunction with the common log for ascertaining the
speed
  of a ship. It consists of two pear-shaped bulbs of glass, united at their apices and having a minute passage formed between them. A quantity of sand (or occasionally of mercury) is enclosed in the bulbs, and the size of the passage is so proportioned that this sand will completely run through from one bulb to another in the time it is desired to measuree.g. an hour or a minute.
Instruments
  of this kind, which have no
great
  pretensions to accuracy, were formerly common in churches. In the English
House
  of Commons, as a preliminary to a division, a two-minute sand-glass is still turned, and while the sand is running the " division bells " are set in motion in every part of the building, to give members notice that a division is at hand.


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