Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Volume 9Astronomical Society of the Pacific., 1897 |
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... nearly in arithmetical progression . This rule — which naturally holds good only in the part investigated - will be useful for the follow- ing summary estimations . V. Geological Consequences . I should certainly not have undertaken ...
... nearly in arithmetical progression . This rule — which naturally holds good only in the part investigated - will be useful for the follow- ing summary estimations . V. Geological Consequences . I should certainly not have undertaken ...
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... nearly simultaneous variations , or at least that this factor has had an important influence . " If we pass the above - mentioned processes for consuming and producing carbonic acid under review , we find that they evidently do not ...
... nearly simultaneous variations , or at least that this factor has had an important influence . " If we pass the above - mentioned processes for consuming and producing carbonic acid under review , we find that they evidently do not ...
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... nearly two hours later . This is the best time of the year for seeing the planet as an evening star . Venus sets about three hours later than the Sun on April 1st ; but it rapidly approaches the Sun and passes inferior conjunction on ...
... nearly two hours later . This is the best time of the year for seeing the planet as an evening star . Venus sets about three hours later than the Sun on April 1st ; but it rapidly approaches the Sun and passes inferior conjunction on ...
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... nearly two hours later . This is the best time of the year for seeing the planet as an evening star . Venus sets about three hours later than the Sun on April 1st ; but it rapidly approaches the Sun and passes inferior conjunction on ...
... nearly two hours later . This is the best time of the year for seeing the planet as an evening star . Venus sets about three hours later than the Sun on April 1st ; but it rapidly approaches the Sun and passes inferior conjunction on ...
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... nearly the same direction that Captain NOBLE had seen it in Sussex , but the hour was so much later that it could hardly have been the same object . Then followed an account of a similar appearance seen by Mrs. HARBIN at Yeovil at 8 30 ...
... nearly the same direction that Captain NOBLE had seen it in Sussex , but the hour was so much later that it could hardly have been the same object . Then followed an account of a similar appearance seen by Mrs. HARBIN at Yeovil at 8 30 ...
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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