Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical SocietyPriestly and Weale, 1861 |
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... Letter from Professor Hansen to the Astronomer Royal , 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 ...
... Letter from Professor Hansen to the Astronomer Royal , 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 ...
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... letter 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 ...
... letter 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 ...
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... letter , 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 ...
... letter , 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 ...
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... letters from Sir T. Maclear and Mr. Hartnup ; and Mr. Jones himself pro- cured a second - hand cast - iron barrel clock without striking parts , and having introduced into it his magnetic pendulum brought to the Edinburgh Observatory in ...
... letters from Sir T. Maclear and Mr. Hartnup ; and Mr. Jones himself pro- cured a second - hand cast - iron barrel clock without striking parts , and having introduced into it his magnetic pendulum brought to the Edinburgh Observatory in ...
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... letter was received in answer to an appli- cation for the aid of Her Majesty's Government towards the establishment for a limited period , under the superintendence of Captain Jacob , of an Observatory in the neighbourhood of Bombay ...
... letter was received in answer to an appli- cation for the aid of Her Majesty's Government towards the establishment for a limited period , under the superintendence of Captain Jacob , of an Observatory in the neighbourhood of Bombay ...
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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