Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical SocietyPriestly and Weale, 1861 |
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... method of calculation . In the calculation of the secular variation of the mean lon- gitude , I have set out with the proposition that the element which I have always denoted by has no influence over it . This proposition I have already ...
... method of calculation . In the calculation of the secular variation of the mean lon- gitude , I have set out with the proposition that the element which I have always denoted by has no influence over it . This proposition I have already ...
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... method of treating his observations and as to the results to be drawn from them , I may be understood as offering to him my thanks and those of other persons interested in this discussion , for the clear and full account of his original ...
... method of treating his observations and as to the results to be drawn from them , I may be understood as offering to him my thanks and those of other persons interested in this discussion , for the clear and full account of his original ...
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... method . The longitude is deter- mined from three good meridian distances from Beirut , using eight chronometers ; Beirut being fixed by a mean of seven meridian distances , using seven chronometers , run between it and Malta . The ...
... method . The longitude is deter- mined from three good meridian distances from Beirut , using eight chronometers ; Beirut being fixed by a mean of seven meridian distances , using seven chronometers , run between it and Malta . The ...
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... Method of Testing and Adjusting the Equi- poise of Altazimuth Instruments . " " On a proposed Isolated Flange for Conical Axes . " It would be useless to attempt giving an abstract of these elaborate papers , relating , as they do , to ...
... Method of Testing and Adjusting the Equi- poise of Altazimuth Instruments . " " On a proposed Isolated Flange for Conical Axes . " It would be useless to attempt giving an abstract of these elaborate papers , relating , as they do , to ...
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... method of investigation , and it was thought better to omit altogether the details of the working rather than present them in an incomplete manner . The Transit of Mercury , Nov. 11 , 1861 . ( Extract of a Letter from Father Secchi to ...
... method of investigation , and it was thought better to omit altogether the details of the working rather than present them in an incomplete manner . The Transit of Mercury , Nov. 11 , 1861 . ( Extract of a Letter from Father Secchi to ...
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