Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Volume 9Astronomical Society of the Pacific., 1897 |
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... given here chiefly for the pur- pose of directing attention to an entirely novel and simple explanation of the vexed questions relating to the Earth's temperature in past times and to the cause of the Glacial Epoch . It is impossible in ...
... given here chiefly for the pur- pose of directing attention to an entirely novel and simple explanation of the vexed questions relating to the Earth's temperature in past times and to the cause of the Glacial Epoch . It is impossible in ...
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... given variation of the Carbonic Acid in the Air . If the quantity of carbonic acid increases in geometric pro- gression , the augmentation of the temperature will increase nearly in arithmetical progression . This rule — which naturally ...
... given variation of the Carbonic Acid in the Air . If the quantity of carbonic acid increases in geometric pro- gression , the augmentation of the temperature will increase nearly in arithmetical progression . This rule — which naturally ...
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... given by Professor HÖGBOM . As his memoir on this question may not be accessible to most readers of these pages , I have summed up and translated his utterances which are of most importance to our subject : * " Although it is not ...
... given by Professor HÖGBOM . As his memoir on this question may not be accessible to most readers of these pages , I have summed up and translated his utterances which are of most importance to our subject : * " Although it is not ...
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... given were , on account of inexact or uncertain assumptions , erroneous to the extent of fifty per cent . or more , the comparison instituted is of very great interest , as it proves that the most important of all the processes by means ...
... given were , on account of inexact or uncertain assumptions , erroneous to the extent of fifty per cent . or more , the comparison instituted is of very great interest , as it proves that the most important of all the processes by means ...
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... given in Pacific Standard time . In the tables for Sun and planets , the second and third columns give the Right Ascension and Declination for Greenwich noon . The fifth column gives the local mean time for transit over the Greenwich ...
... given in Pacific Standard time . In the tables for Sun and planets , the second and third columns give the Right Ascension and Declination for Greenwich noon . The fifth column gives the local mean time for transit over the Greenwich ...
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aperture April Arcturian Astronomical Society Atlas atmosphere August Board of Directors bright BRUCE Medal C. D. PERRINE Capellan carbonic acid catalogue comet Comet-Medal Committee Committee-Messrs constellation December Decl Declination degrees eastward diameter dome eclipse EDWARD equatorial F. R. ZIEL feet Greenwich Hamilton Harvard College Observatory HOLDEN inches instruments interstellar medium January July June Jupiter latitude LEWIS SWIFT Library Lick Observatory longitude magnitude March Mars meeting Mercury meridian Messrs meteor minutes Miss O'HALLORAN MOLERA month Moon morning star motion Mount Hamilton moves nebulæ Neptune November Oakland observations October Pacific penumbra photographic planets plates President prisms Prof Professor proper-motion Publications quantity of carbonic R. G. AITKEN San Francisco Saturn SCHAEBERLE Secretary seen Sept September Shadow touching Sirian solar spectra spectroscope sun-spot telescope tion Transit umbra University Observatory Uranus Venus W. H. S. MONCK WILLIAM ALVORD Yerkes Observatory Yerkes telescope ΙΟ