Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
249058 Building and Environment 2008 5 Pages PDF
Abstract

The relation between altitude of the sun and location and time of day at the point of observation and the time of year was probably known in its present form in the early 17th century and an example of its calculation given here demonstrates that it was well known by 1760.

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