 Cape of Good Hope, is doubtful; not to the extent of only a few hundred feet, as commonly supposed, but the uncertainty amounts to some thousands of feet, and may possibly be a mile or more, probably not less than a ten-thousandth of the whole distance;...  The Observatory - Page 2771884Full view - About this book
 | John Michels (Journalist) - 1884 - 652 pages
...observations. The length of the line joining, say, the Naval observatory at Washington with the Royal observatory at the Cape of Good Hope, is doubtful;...chains of triangulation. Astronomical determinations of latitude and longitude do not meet the case ; since, in the last analysis, they only give at any... | |
 | 1884 - 412 pages
...observations. The length of the line joining, say, the Naval Observatory at Washington with the Royal Observatory at the Cape of Good Hope is doubtful —...Address to the American Association for the Advancement of Science at Philadelphia, Sept. 5, 1884, by Prof. CA YOUNG, Professor of Astronomy at Princeton,... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - 1884 - 668 pages
...observations. The length of the line joining, say, the Naval observatory at Washington with the Royal observatory at the Cape of Good Hope, is doubtful;...chains of triangulation. Astronomical determinations of latitude and longitude do not meet the case; since, in the last analysis, they only give at any... | |
 | 1884 - 660 pages
...observations. The length of the line joining, say, the Naval observatory at Washington with the Royal observatory at the Cape of Good Hope, is doubtful;...chains of triangulation. Astronomical determinations of latitude and longitude do not meet the case ; since, in the last analysis, they only give at any... | |
 | 1884 - 392 pages
...uncertainty is sufficient to embarrass in the reduction and comparison of certain lunar observations. We have no satisfactory means of obtaining the desired...they cannot be connected by chains of triangulation. A more important and anxious question of the modern astronomer is, Is the earth's rotation uniform,... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1885 - 470 pages
...length of the line joining, say, the Naval observatory at Washington with the Royal observatory at Cape of Good Hope, is doubtful ; not to the extent...chains of triangulation. Astronomical determinations of latitude and longitude do not meet the case ; since, in the last analysis, they only give at any... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1885 - 850 pages
...length of the line joining, say, the Naval observatory at Washington with the Royal observatory at Cape of Good Hope, is doubtful ; not to the extent...chains of triangulation. Astronomical determinations of latitude and longitude do not meet the case ; since, in the last analysis, they only give at any... | |
 | 1885 - 900 pages
...observations. The length of the line joining, say, the Naval Observatory at Washington with the Royal Observatory at the Cape of Good Hope is doubtful,...position of places separated by oceans, so that they can not be connected by chains of triangulation. Astronomical determinations of latitude and longitude... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1885 - 474 pages
...of either continent which have been directly connected with each other by geodetic Iriangulations, no corresponding uncertainty obtains ; and as time...chains of triangulation. Astronomical determinations of latitude and longitude do not meet the case ; since, in the last analysis, they only give at any... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1885 - 874 pages
...uncertainty obtains ; and as time goes on, and these surveys are extended, the form and dimensions of eacli continuous land-surface will become more and more...chains of triangulation. Astronomical determinations of latitude and longitude do not meet the case ; since, in the last anaty-- sis, they only give at... | |
| |
