Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical SocietyPriestly and Weale, 1861 |
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... dated Gotha , 1861 , Oct. 18 . My principal labours advance progressively , and I work at them with pleasure . Events in the last summer have indeed occasioned some delay , and my other various avocations also often create cessations ...
... dated Gotha , 1861 , Oct. 18 . My principal labours advance progressively , and I work at them with pleasure . Events in the last summer have indeed occasioned some delay , and my other various avocations also often create cessations ...
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... dated 1861 , Sept. 16. Dr. Hincks remarks , " The whole columns 37 and ( a ) , p . 86 , are miscalcu- lated , the error in the former being proportional to the cube ( a ) 37 of the number of centuries before 1800. 9 : 1823 + 275 ought ...
... dated 1861 , Sept. 16. Dr. Hincks remarks , " The whole columns 37 and ( a ) , p . 86 , are miscalcu- lated , the error in the former being proportional to the cube ( a ) 37 of the number of centuries before 1800. 9 : 1823 + 275 ought ...
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... dated St. Augustine's Parsonage , Hurst Green , Sussex , Nov. 5th , 1861 , which accompanied the drawings : - " The present series , continued from Nov. 15th , 1860 , and brought down to Oct. 31st of the present year , consists of about ...
... dated St. Augustine's Parsonage , Hurst Green , Sussex , Nov. 5th , 1861 , which accompanied the drawings : - " The present series , continued from Nov. 15th , 1860 , and brought down to Oct. 31st of the present year , consists of about ...
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... dated 12 Sept. 1861 , replaces one with the same title presented to the Turin Academy , 26 May , 1861 , the numerical results of which were erroneous , in consequence of an error of transcription in one of the formula . The con- clusion ...
... dated 12 Sept. 1861 , replaces one with the same title presented to the Turin Academy , 26 May , 1861 , the numerical results of which were erroneous , in consequence of an error of transcription in one of the formula . The con- clusion ...
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... dated Rome , Nov. 16 , 1861. ) The passage of Mercury on the solar disk has been observed here under very good circumstances , but almost by a miracle , because the sky was all overcast by clouds . Some details will be found in the ...
... dated Rome , Nov. 16 , 1861. ) The passage of Mercury on the solar disk has been observed here under very good circumstances , but almost by a miracle , because the sky was all overcast by clouds . Some details will be found in the ...
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2r+g Airy Alhazen Annex appears April Astronomer Royal bright Calculation CAYLEY clock Comet computed corrected crater Decl declination diameter difference distance Ditto ditto edge Ephemeris equations Equatoreal error excentricity eye-piece Greenwich inches aperture instrument July June Jupiter Jupiter's Satellites latitude light limb longitude Lunar m² e m² n² Mars Mean Solar measures Memoir meridian Minor Planets Monthly Notices Moon Moon's Mean Motion N.P.D. from Observation Nautical Almanac nearly Nebula nucleus Number of Observations obtained Occultation orbit parallax perihelion photographs Prof R.A. from Observation Radcliffe Catalogue radiation Right Ascension ring Royal Observatory Saturn Secular Acceleration shadow Sirius Small Planets Society Solar Eclipse soleil stars Struve Sun's disk surface T. W. Webb taches telescope term thermometer tion Transit of Mercury Ursa Variable Variable Stars W. R. Dawes Weisse