æquator

Noun

 * 1) * 1835, James Ashburner Campbell and of East Sussex, Sir Thomas Browne’s Works: Including His Life and Correspondence, page 78:
 * {1} Every day is an emblem of the yeare; and therein the sun hath his declination, or distance from the meridian, as from the æquator, his solstice in itt, as in the tropicks; and his different altitudes azimuths every moment. — Wr.
 * {2} ‛T is seemingly strange, but most true, that they who lye betweene the æquator and the tropic, have a hotter summer than they that lye under the æquator; suppose under 12 degrees north or south : bycause with them sommer is twice doubled in 3 months : having the sonn twice over their heads in that space : whereas they under the æquator have him twice, but in 6 months distance, and 2 winters between. For the distance of the son from the center in his auge at summer is 1210 semidiameters of the earth : but his nearest distance is never above 1122, every semidiameter containing 7159¼ of our miles. — Wr.
 * 1) * 1835, James Ashburner Campbell and of East Sussex, Sir Thomas Browne’s Works: Including His Life and Correspondence, page 78:
 * {1} Every day is an emblem of the yeare; and therein the sun hath his declination, or distance from the meridian, as from the æquator, his solstice in itt, as in the tropicks; and his different altitudes azimuths every moment. — Wr.
 * {2} ‛T is seemingly strange, but most true, that they who lye betweene the æquator and the tropic, have a hotter summer than they that lye under the æquator; suppose under 12 degrees north or south : bycause with them sommer is twice doubled in 3 months : having the sonn twice over their heads in that space : whereas they under the æquator have him twice, but in 6 months distance, and 2 winters between. For the distance of the son from the center in his auge at summer is 1210 semidiameters of the earth : but his nearest distance is never above 1122, every semidiameter containing 7159¼ of our miles. — Wr.