Excerpt from The Complete Mathematical and General Navigation Tables, Vol. 2 of 2: Including Every Table Required With the Nautical Almanac in Finding the Latitude and Longitude; With an Explanation of Their Construction, Use, and Application to Navigation and Nautical Astronomy, Trigonometry, Dialling, Gunnery, Etc., Etc
XLVII. Time from noon when the sun's centre is in the prime vertical; being the instant at which the altitude of that object should be observed, in order to ascertain the ap parent time with the greatest accuracy.
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