In other words, when the sun or any other heavenly body is on your meridian, a line stretched due N and S, intersecting the N and S poles, will pass through your zenith and the center of the sun or other celestial body.
"Lectures in Navigation"
Ernest Gallaudet Draper
It is the angle at the celestial pole between the meridian intersecting any given point and the meridian intersecting the center of the sun.
"Lectures in Navigation"
Ernest Gallaudet Draper
He concludes that poetry and prose are not two entirely separate spheres, but intersecting and penetrating.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell