Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical SocietyPriestly and Weale, 1858 |
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... present the members with a tolerably complete discussion of the series of solar spot observations which I have now kept up at Redhill for nearly five years ; but a family loss by the hand of death has for the last three months deprived ...
... present the members with a tolerably complete discussion of the series of solar spot observations which I have now kept up at Redhill for nearly five years ; but a family loss by the hand of death has for the last three months deprived ...
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... present meets him of the state of maturity his subject might have attained ere this , had not the opportunities of two centuries been neglected , by his predecessors condemning the research as one of idle curiosity , fit matter for a ...
... present meets him of the state of maturity his subject might have attained ere this , had not the opportunities of two centuries been neglected , by his predecessors condemning the research as one of idle curiosity , fit matter for a ...
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... present purpose , an infinitely better limiting condition , is furnished by equation ( 2 ) which is the second form of equation ( 1 ) , viz . , e = cot S sin p .c • ( 2 ) S For if the angle S , between the zenith distance and the polar ...
... present purpose , an infinitely better limiting condition , is furnished by equation ( 2 ) which is the second form of equation ( 1 ) , viz . , e = cot S sin p .c • ( 2 ) S For if the angle S , between the zenith distance and the polar ...
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... present the appearance of coarse rays crossing and intersecting in all directions , and in no part offering any exterior boundary suffi- ciently defined to have its termination submitted to measure- ment . An observation was made by M ...
... present the appearance of coarse rays crossing and intersecting in all directions , and in no part offering any exterior boundary suffi- ciently defined to have its termination submitted to measure- ment . An observation was made by M ...
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... present memoir , the mode of development being a reproduction of that made use of by Hansen . The results are compared with those obtained by Lubbock and Pontécoulant . But the memoir is written with a view to the development and ...
... present memoir , the mode of development being a reproduction of that made use of by Hansen . The results are compared with those obtained by Lubbock and Pontécoulant . But the memoir is written with a view to the development and ...
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