Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical SocietyPriestly and Weale, 1861 |
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... determination of the coefficients of the Lunar Theory , I have occupied myself , for some short time past , with putting together and sending to the press my calculation of the prin- cipal perturbations , which , as stated above , has ...
... determination of the coefficients of the Lunar Theory , I have occupied myself , for some short time past , with putting together and sending to the press my calculation of the prin- cipal perturbations , which , as stated above , has ...
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... determined by means of an instrument similar in its construction and action to the colour top . The numerical value of every tint can thus be precisely ascertained . The cradle , with its plate of glass , is moved within a box having a ...
... determined by means of an instrument similar in its construction and action to the colour top . The numerical value of every tint can thus be precisely ascertained . The cradle , with its plate of glass , is moved within a box having a ...
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... determined from a mean of four meridian altitudes of a and B Libræ south of the zenith , and ten observations of Polaris , using the Nautical Almanac method . The longitude is deter- mined from three good meridian distances from Beirut ...
... determined from a mean of four meridian altitudes of a and B Libræ south of the zenith , and ten observations of Polaris , using the Nautical Almanac method . The longitude is deter- mined from three good meridian distances from Beirut ...
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... determined . The Ob- servatory of Dorpat is the only point the longitude whereof has been determined with eminent precision , by the chrono- metric comparison in the year 1854 , between Dorpat and Pulkova . In a statistic and ...
... determined . The Ob- servatory of Dorpat is the only point the longitude whereof has been determined with eminent precision , by the chrono- metric comparison in the year 1854 , between Dorpat and Pulkova . In a statistic and ...
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... determined by the condition that dt may contain no constant term ( for otherwise nt would not be the whole term varying directly as the time , in the longitude vv ) . The values of g ' , v ' , de ' , do ' , are given by the theory of ...
... determined by the condition that dt may contain no constant term ( for otherwise nt would not be the whole term varying directly as the time , in the longitude vv ) . The values of g ' , v ' , de ' , do ' , are given by the theory of ...
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