Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical SocietyPriestly and Weale, 1861 |
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... position to be able to examine with ease the individual parts of my calculation . With regard to the two small errors in the Lunar Tables which you communicate to me , they have arisen in this man- ner - Page 86 , Arg . 37 and ( a ) ...
... position to be able to examine with ease the individual parts of my calculation . With regard to the two small errors in the Lunar Tables which you communicate to me , they have arisen in this man- ner - Page 86 , Arg . 37 and ( a ) ...
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... positions of the Sun and Moon , rests entirely upon his arbitrary correction of the first observation ; where his recorded measure was 13 , which measure he has changed with the simple remark " probablement 2'3 " , and has used so ...
... positions of the Sun and Moon , rests entirely upon his arbitrary correction of the first observation ; where his recorded measure was 13 , which measure he has changed with the simple remark " probablement 2'3 " , and has used so ...
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... position of this crater , as I saw it , does not accord with its position on the large map . I apprehend it to be really more southerly than marked by Beer and Mädler . Westward of this are four small craters , which I failed to see ...
... position of this crater , as I saw it , does not accord with its position on the large map . I apprehend it to be really more southerly than marked by Beer and Mädler . Westward of this are four small craters , which I failed to see ...
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... position of which is- latitude 33 ° 34 " 26 ' N. , longitude 35 ° 21 ′ 39 ′′ E. The latitude is determined from a mean of four meridian altitudes of a and B Libræ south of the zenith , and ten observations of Polaris , using the ...
... position of which is- latitude 33 ° 34 " 26 ' N. , longitude 35 ° 21 ′ 39 ′′ E. The latitude is determined from a mean of four meridian altitudes of a and B Libræ south of the zenith , and ten observations of Polaris , using the ...
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... position and into the central hall of the Observatory . The new observing clock goes as accurately as , because simultaneously with , the old transit or regulating clock , but with a vigour or mechanical power more than three hundred ...
... position and into the central hall of the Observatory . The new observing clock goes as accurately as , because simultaneously with , the old transit or regulating clock , but with a vigour or mechanical power more than three hundred ...
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