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Precession and NutationFixed Stars Their Effects on the Apparent Places of the 79 SECTION XII . Mean and Apparent Sidereal Time — Mean and Apparent Solar Time - Equation of Time - English and French Subdivisions of Time — Leap Year ...
Precession and NutationFixed Stars Their Effects on the Apparent Places of the 79 SECTION XII . Mean and Apparent Sidereal Time — Mean and Apparent Solar Time - Equation of Time - English and French Subdivisions of Time — Leap Year ...
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... and Biela's Comets · Velocity of Comets — - The Comet of 1264 — The great Comet of 1343 Physical Constitution - Shine by borrowed Light Estimation of their Number 358 - SECTION XXXVI . The Fixed Stars — Their Number — CONTENTS . XV.
... and Biela's Comets · Velocity of Comets — - The Comet of 1264 — The great Comet of 1343 Physical Constitution - Shine by borrowed Light Estimation of their Number 358 - SECTION XXXVI . The Fixed Stars — Their Number — CONTENTS . XV.
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The Fixed Stars — Their Number — The Milky Way - Double Stars Binary Systems — Their Orbits and Periodic Times - Colours of the Stars Stars that have vanished — Variable Stars - Variation in Sun's Light – Parallax and Distances of the ...
The Fixed Stars — Their Number — The Milky Way - Double Stars Binary Systems — Their Orbits and Periodic Times - Colours of the Stars Stars that have vanished — Variable Stars - Variation in Sun's Light – Parallax and Distances of the ...
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The difference between these two periods arises from a retrograde motion in the equinoctial point , which meets the advancing axis before it has completed its revolution with regard to the stars . The major axis of Jupiter's orbit ...
The difference between these two periods arises from a retrograde motion in the equinoctial point , which meets the advancing axis before it has completed its revolution with regard to the stars . The major axis of Jupiter's orbit ...
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But , if the fixed stars , comets , or any unknown aud unseen bodies , affect our sun and planets , the nodes of this plane will slowly recede on the plane of that immense orbit which the sun may describe about some most distant centre ...
But , if the fixed stars , comets , or any unknown aud unseen bodies , affect our sun and planets , the nodes of this plane will slowly recede on the plane of that immense orbit which the sun may describe about some most distant centre ...
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