Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical SocietyPriestly and Weale, 1861 |
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... errors , with an incorrect coefficient of ( c - 18 ) . The influence of this error , however , is so insig- nificant that it can , even in the year -800 , produce an effect , at the most , of 18 upon the Moon's longitude , and , as a ...
... errors , with an incorrect coefficient of ( c - 18 ) . The influence of this error , however , is so insig- nificant that it can , even in the year -800 , produce an effect , at the most , of 18 upon the Moon's longitude , and , as a ...
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... error disappears . I happened to notice a minor error in p . 77 , 500 , Arg . 10 , where 56.619 is printed for 56.691 . This , however , produces no sensible error . " On a Result deduced by M. D'Abbadie from Observations of the Total ...
... error disappears . I happened to notice a minor error in p . 77 , 500 , Arg . 10 , where 56.619 is printed for 56.691 . This , however , produces no sensible error . " On a Result deduced by M. D'Abbadie from Observations of the Total ...
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... error of latitude produces no error in the deduced place of the comet , except in so far as it alters the computed altitude of the star and comet , and therefore slightly alters the refraction and the correction of distance ; and a small ...
... error of latitude produces no error in the deduced place of the comet , except in so far as it alters the computed altitude of the star and comet , and therefore slightly alters the refraction and the correction of distance ; and a small ...
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... error , such as an irregularity in the form of the pivots . The errors of observa- tion are not greater than those which occur in observatories of a high class , as those at Oxford and Cambridge , and are such as to disappear to a great ...
... error , such as an irregularity in the form of the pivots . The errors of observa- tion are not greater than those which occur in observatories of a high class , as those at Oxford and Cambridge , and are such as to disappear to a great ...
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... error of transcription in one of the formula . The con- clusion arrived at is stated to be , that while the hypothesis of M. Faye gives results approaching those observed for the two periodic comets of 1205 days and 2718 days ( Encke's ...
... error of transcription in one of the formula . The con- clusion arrived at is stated to be , that while the hypothesis of M. Faye gives results approaching those observed for the two periodic comets of 1205 days and 2718 days ( Encke's ...
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